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[lojban-beginners] Re: la'e di'u

On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 1:51 PM,  <MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com> wrote:
> In a message dated 4/1/2009 13:39:48 Eastern Daylight Time,
> mturniansky@gmail.com writes:
>
>
> la jon na zanfri lo nu rokci cpare (or "cpare lo rokci" to be more
> precise) .iku'i jy Â(NOT "la jy". "jy" is already a sumti by itself,
> "J") zukte lo se go'i
>
> ÂLet's go through this step by step:
> la jon <-- x1 of "nelci"
> na <-- "not", Ânegates the whole bridi
> zanfri <-- "enjoys"
> lo nu cpare lo rokci <- "rock climbing", the x2 of zanfri
> .i Â<-- sentence break
> jy <-- "J", the x1 of zukte, refers back to "la jon"
> zukte <-- "does act"
> lo se go'i <-- the x2 of the previous bridi, which is now the x2 of
> this sentence
>
> ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ--gejyspa
>
>
> You left out "ku'i" after ".i". ÂHow does that fit in?
>

  Sorry, that was an oversight.  "ku'i" is in the UI family, meaning,
grammatically, it affects nothing.  It can be freely inserted
anywhere.  On a semantic level, it means "however", and scopes over
the word it follows.  Since it follows the ".i" its effect is the
the whole sentence.

            --gejyspa