[lojban-beginners] Re: Ingersoll's creed - laboriously

["Jorge Llambías" <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On 8/21/08, A. PIEKARSKI <totus@rogers.com> wrote:
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> I find this construction confusing.  Could you explain all the elements of
> {lo jai bu'u gleki cu me la'e zo no} in detail, please?

(I had {zo nau}.)

I guess the difficult bit is {jai bu'u}. {jai bu'u} is similar to a cmavo from
selma'o SE. It re-orders the arguments of a brivla, bringing in this case
the bu'u-argument to x1 and sending the old x1 to a new place tagged
with {fai}.

So for example, if you have:

     mi tavla do bu'u lo panka
     I talk to you in the park.

you can transform it, by re-ordering the places of {tavla}, into:

     lo panka cu jai bu'u tavla do fai mi
     The park is where talk to you I.


{me la'e zo nau} is just a selbri meaning: "x1 is that which is
referred to by the word "nau".

mu'o mi'e xorxes