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[lojban-beginners] Re: Ingersoll's creed - laboriously
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- Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Ingersoll's creed - laboriously
- From: "A. PIEKARSKI" <totus@rogers.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:02:48 -0700 (PDT)
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>
> 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.
So 'the place in which I am happy is Toronto' would be
{lo jai bu'u gleki be fai mi cu me la torontos}?
>
mu'o mi'e andrus