yes cu does serve a purpose. It's a shortcut for "close everything that needs closing so that I can say the selbri now".
So in "lo ctuca cu citka lo plise" "cu" is a shortcut for plain old "ku" (not much of an advantage here). But it can come in handy in situations like "lo nu mi pensi lo nu mi cusku lu zenba cu se kakne". Here "cu is standing in for "li'u kei kei". Sometimes it's easier for lazier folk like myself to be able to say "ugh, that convoluted sumti is done, now I want to do the selbri... shoot what all needs closing? Bah forget it. 'cu'. "
And here I was told that without cu one of my favorite statements made no sense at all. So what is it: does cu serve a purpose, or not? If not, then what would I use in it's place?
mi'o braisOn Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 3:38 AM, Lindar <lindarthebard@gmail.com> wrote:The short answer:It's never necessary. NEVER.It's a handy shortcut sometimes.Learn to do without it at first or your grammar will suck.--To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/lojban-beginners/-/CuzwB6IY5XEJ.
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