[lojban-beginners] Re: Asking specific questions

[Ian Johnson <blindbravado@gmail.com>]

So in the previous instance you have the x1 place as zo'e (and thus taken to be from the previous sentence) and then you fill in the x2 place as being lo mi zdani. To make a silly but more general example, just to make sure I understand:
mi'o klama lo zdani lo solri xu
might a reasonable answer (ignoring the ridiculousness of the original question, and the litany of attitudinals that would fly out from the respondent in reality) be:
go'i fi lo zarci
?

mu'omi'e latros.

2010/3/2 Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>

On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Ian Johnson <blindbravado@gmail.com> wrote:
> OK. So how does go'i work, exactly, in the case of "go'i lo mi zdani"?
> Ordinarily it repeats the previous {bridi}, yes, and if you give it an
> article it can be used to refer back to a particular {sumti} in the previous
> {bridi} (as in, say, le se go'i). But what happens here, logically?

"go'i" is a selbri, so strictly speaking it repeats the selbri of the
previous bridi, but a selbri can always be a bridi by itself, and the
missing "zo'e"s are usually taken to be the same arguments as those of
the previous bridi, so the effect is as if you had repeated the whole
bridi. But you can always fill any argument of "go'i" with something
explicit, such as "lo mi zdani", in which case that argument will no
longer be the corresponding one from the preceding bridi.

mu'o mi'e xorxes