[lojban-beginners] Re: nu'a pi'i

[Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com>]

> ti fo li so'o nandu zmadu ta

when you do it like this doesn't this come to "ti (x1) fo li so'o (x4) nandu zmadu ta (x5)"?  Which doesn't seem to make sense since zmadu doesn't have an x5.  This happens because when using a selma'o FA every place that comes after that is incrimenting from the last FA that you used eg. "da klama fi de di do" has the meaning "da(x1) comes/goes from origin de(x3) via route do(x4)" completely skipping over the x2 place.

 - Luke Bergen

On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 11:27 AM, tijlan <jbotijlan@gmail.com> wrote:

2009/6/6 Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>:

> On 6/6/09, tijlan <jbotijlan@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm trying to jbosku "This is several times more difficult than that".
>> I came up with
>>
>>  ti la'u li so'o nandu zmadu ta
>
> I think "se la'u", because "li so'o" is the se klani, not the klani.
>
>>  ti fo li so'o nandu zmadu ta
>
> I would say the ve zmadu is the difference in difficulty between ti
> and ta, rather than the quotient.

.ua ki'e

>>  ti me li so'o nandu zmadu ta
>>
>> I also ventured
>>
>>  ti nu'a pi'i li so'o nandu semau ta
>>
>> But this one jbofi'e won't parse. Whai is the problem?
>
> "nu'a pi'i" is a tanru unit, so what you have is like "ti broda li
> so'o nandu semau ta"
>
> You need "ti nu'a pi'i be li so'o nandu" or "ti fi'o nu'a pi'i li so'o
> nandu", depending on what you meant.
>
> mu'o mi'e xorxes

I see. Upon looking up CLL Chapter 20's "li ni'umu cu nu'a va'a li
ma'umu", I misunderstood that the whole "va'a li ma'umu" was what
"nu'a" was turning into a selbri.

ki'e ke'u mi'e tijlan