[lojban-beginners] Re: difference between di'o and tu'i

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

On Thursday 05 March 2009 11:08:40 Luke Bergen wrote:
> ahh, thank you.  So for instance, "where is the bathroom" might be "ma tu'i
> lo vimku'a" while "where is the book" would probably be "ma se di'o lo
> cukta".  Am I right?

Neither of those sentences has a predicate. They mean "What at the bathroom" 
and "What in the book's area", or something like that.

I'd say "lo .arpitano cu diklo la .aostas. lo stici rontu'a" but "la kurmaier. 
se stuzi la .aostas." Arpitan is a language, and moves around with its 
speakers, but Courmayeur is a town, and can't move around. ("arpitano" has 
the same place structure as "fraso", and can also refer to Arpitan people or 
anything else Arpitan.)

Pierre