[lojban-beginners] Re: se du'u?

[Minimiscience <minimiscience@gmail.com>]

de'i li 10 pi'e 02 pi'e 2010 la'o fy. Ian Johnson .fy. cusku zoi skamyxatra.
> I'm wondering about what you can use se du'u with. Here's a simple example:
> do cusku le se du'u coi latros. .ui
> Can I do that? Or do I need something else, like quote tags?
.skamyxatra

That needs to be "{do cusku lu coi latros. .ui li'u}."  "{du'u}," like other
abstractions, takes a full {bridi}, which "{coi latros. .ui}" is not.  "{lo se
du'u [bridi]}" refers to the words that would express the {bridi}, while just
"{lo du'u [bridi]}" would be the abstract statement expressed by the {bridi}.
An example of the proper use of "{se du'u}" would be "{do cusku lo se du'u do
cnino}" -- "You say that you are new" -- which is practically equivalent to
"{do cusku lu mi cnino li'u}" -- "You say, 'I am new.'"

mu'omi'e .kamymecraijun.

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