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Re: [lojban-beginners] questions about 'cu'



On Saturday, February 18, 2012 17:25:59 RexScientiarum wrote:
> I am a bit confused by 'cu'.  Is there any instances where its usage
> is necessarily?  Otherwise I don't understand why it exists.

There are some instances where you can say "cu" or a pile of terminators. For 
example:
.i lo zbasu be le minji be lo nu lo remna cu vofli bu'u la .kiti'ok. cu du la 
.uilbr. joi la .orvil.
.i lo zbasu be le minji be lo nu lo remna cu vofli bu'u la .kiti'ok. ku ku ku 
du la .uilbr. joi la .orvil.
.i lo zbasu be le minji be lo nu lo remna cu vofli bu'u la .kiti'ok. be'o be'o 
ku du la .uilbr. joi la .orvil.

There is also a natlang, namely Tok Pisin, which has a word like "cu". It's 
called the predicate marker, though being the only word in its selma'o, it 
might as well just be called a particle.

Man i mekim masin bilong man i flai long Kitty Hawk i Wilbur na Orville.

(I don't know how Tok Pisin handles names of people and places in English 
outside PNG.)

Pierre
-- 
La sal en el mar es más que en la sangre.
Le sel dans la mer est plus que dans le sang.

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