[lojban-beginners] Re: jai (now a question about {bo})

[Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com>]

Sorry, I was being un-necessarily hard on the CLL.  Let me clarify.  When I read through chapter 10 I was surprised to find them using "+bo" as a kind of terminator when it's not really a cmavo unto itself but almost like a suffix like english uses "-ed", "-ing", etc... which seemed very un-lojbanic to me. 

Like you said, similar to {jai} it seems to have two uses that are completely un-related (moreso with {bo} than with {jai} I think).

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com> wrote:

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Luke Bergen<lukeabergen@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ok, I will just keep plugging away and will most likely get it in time.
>
> You bring up an interesting side question though.  {BO}  wtf is going on
> there?  I looked through the CLL and have found that the only "official"
> definition for it is the tanru use like {lo melbi cmalu bo nixli ckule} to
> mean the (pretty (little girl) school).  But I see it ALL THE TIME after
> tense words like {pu bo} and {ca bo}.  What exactly is this usage?

 No, that is not the only official use in the CLL.  Besides the
chapter 5 use you speak of, see for example the following sections:
10.16-17, 14.8, 14.10, 14.15, 14.18 15.6, 18.17

             --gejyspa