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[lojban-beginners] inversive linking



I sometimes think it would have been convenient if linking/associating
sumtis in an inverted way (left to right) were possible. I have in
mind a construct exemplified by these English and Japanese phrases:

 Ken's child's apple rolls.
 Ken no kodomo no ringo ga korogaru.

Retaining the word order, we may translate this as:

 lo lo la .ken. verba ku plise cu gunro

... which is somewhat counterintuitive. Wouldn't it be cool if we
could do the following ("pe'ei" being an experimental, inversive
version of "pe"):

 la .ken. pe'ei lo verba pe'ei lo plise cu gunro

mu'o se ckire spuda mi'e tijlan