[lojban-beginners] Re: .imu'ibo

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 6:35 PM, Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Ok, that makes sense.... mostly.  BO takes the previous
> word/construct/whatever and joins it in the shortest scope possible with the
> following word/construct/whatever.  And with {.ibabo} the previous sentence
> implies that they (the two bridi) are connected by the {ba} and that the
> {ba} is not modifying the following bridi in the normal (self-contained)
> fashion.... am I right so far?

Right.

".i <tag> bo" is essentially the same as ".i bo" with an inserted tag.
The whole of  ".i <tag> bo" is the sentence connective, so the tag is
no more a part of the second sentence than of the first. It is a part
of the connective.

mu'o mi'e xorxes