[lojban-beginners] Re: why won't jbofi'e parse this?

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

On Thursday 16 April 2009 09:13:24 Luke Bergen wrote:
> Would it also be acceptable to say la'e dy dy ry?  Or does la'e only take
> one word like zo

"la'e" takes a sumti and returns a sumti. Most often the sumti is "di'u", 
which refers to a previous text; "la'e di'u" refers to whatever that previous 
text refers to. "dy dy ry" refers to the thing your playing, so "la'e dy dy 
ry", while grammatical, doesn't make sense.

Pierre