[lojban-beginners] Re: fa fe fi se te...

[Alex Martini <alexjm@umich.edu>]

On Jan 2, 2009, at 11:11 AM, Luke Bergen wrote:
> ok, so the se type words modify the selbri before the fa type words  
> have any effect on the sumti.  So "mi se tavla fi do lo cukta lo  
> lojban" = "do tavla fi mi do lo cukta lo lojban" = "you are talked  
> to by someone about me in language book <no space left to deal with  
> lo lojban so parse error>".  xu mi drani

I think you want {la lojban} rather than {lo lojban}.  You can say  
both {lo cukta} and {la cukta} because {cukta} is a bridi.  They have  
different meanings, but both are grammatical.  But {lojban} in a  
cmeve, so only {la lojban} is valid.  The corresponding bridi is  
{lojbo}, meaning "lojbanic", or more specifically {jbobau} meaning  
"the lojbanic language".

mu'o mi'e .aleks.