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

["komfo,amonan" <komfoamonan@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 12:10 AM, Stela Selckiku <selckiku@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Alan Post
> <alanpost+keyword+lojban.420f97@sunflowerriver.org> wrote:
>> Âlu le munje li'u cu cmalu
>>
>> I would guess that the "cu" is optional, because the terminator li'u
>> is used. ÂIs this correct?
>
>
> That's right. ÂIncidentally, that sentence reads somewhat oddly to me;
> I'm not sure it's wrong, but I probably would have said "lo'u le munje
> le'u cmalu".

I've noticed a practice on IRC that limits the contents of {lu ...
li'u} to full bridi. But the restriction is actually only that the
contents be grammatical (CLL 19:9). So:

lu le munje li'u cmalu - Grammatical
*lu le munje cu li'u cmalu - Ungrammatical
lo'u le munje cu le'u cmalu - Grammatical
lo'u le munje le'u cmalu - Grammatical (but confusing to me, because
it implies that the speaker believes {le munje} to be ungrammatical)

mu'o mi'e komfo,amonan