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

[tijlan <jbotijlan@gmail.com>]

2009/6/6 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.

According to jbofi'e, "ta" in my example is x2. This probably has to
do with the fact that the main selbri intervenes between the two
sumti. When it's other than the selbri, the latter sumti is counted
consecutively e.g. in "da fo de ca ku di broda", "di" is x5.

mu'o mi'e tijlan