[lojban-beginners] Re: grammar check for my first few sentences

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Monday 02 March 2009 18:37:40 Minimiscience wrote:
> de'i li 02 pi'e 03 pi'e 2009 la'o fy. Alan Post .fy. cusku zoi skamyxatra.
> > .i se lu pa re ci li'u cusku do
> > ("123" you said.)
> >
> > Are the lu/li'u required here?  Is this the same sentence as "se pa
> > re ci cusku do" or is that saying "the concept of 123 you speak
> > about?"  I assume the status of lu/li'u is the same if you replace
> > "pa re ci" with "coi."
> .skamyxatra
>
> The "{lu}" and "{li'u}" are required; however, the "{se}" needs to be
> placed immediately before the "{cusku}," without any intervening {sumti}. 
> Also, saying "{pa re ci se cusku do}" would mean "123 utterances [are
> somehow related to] you," as a bare number string acts as a quantifier for
> a {sumti} rather than as a separate {sumti}.

You could also say "me'o pa re ci cu se cusku do". The difference between that 
and "lu pa re ci li'u se cusku do" is that in the first, you're saying 
digits, and in the second, you're saying words. You can also terminate "me'o" 
or "li" with "lo'o" and drop "cu".

Non-beginners: I tried this without the "cu" and jbofi'e spat it out. The 
reason is that "se" can modify a mathematical operator: li pareci sevu'u 
cirepa du li cirepa vu'u pareci. camxes would accept it, I suppose, but the 
LALR(1) grammar doesn't.

mu'omi'e .pier.