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

[Minimiscience <minimiscience@gmail.com>]

de'i li 01 pi'e 04 pi'e 2009 la'o fy. Luke Bergen .fy. cusku zoi skamyxatra.
> I see, so it is grammatical to refer to "se go'i", "te go'i", etc...?
.skamyxatra

Yes.

> so if:   "la djan pu tcidu la nicte cadzu" then I could say "mi djica lo nu
> mi tcidu la'e se go'i" for "I want to read that too"?

"{la'e se go'i}" is incorrect.  First, "{la'e}" has to be placed before a
{sumti}, e.g., "{la'e lo se go'i}."  Secondly, as the x2 of the first sentence
already refers to the book itself, there is no reason to use "{la'e}" here.

> which brings me to another question, how can you say "la luk bergen"?  My
> name is made up of two cmene but how do people know that "bergen" falls
> under the "la".

"{la luk.bergen.}"

It falls under the "{la}" because that's the only place it can go; you can't
have free-floating {cmevla} in a sentence unless they're part of a larger
structure (a {sumti}, a vocative, a "{bu}" {lervla}, or as the delimiter of a
ZOI quote).  Hence, a sequence of {sumti} preceded by a LA can only comprise a
single {sumti}.

> If a cmene has two names can the "ku" no longer be elided?

According to the Yacc grammar, {cmene sumti} cannot be terminated with "{ku}."
However, a "LA + {selbri}" {sumti} can.

mu'omi'e .kamymecraijun.

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