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

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Monday, February 20, 2012 09:52:54 Adam Lopresto wrote:
> Just to further what others have said, and try to make it more concrete,
> you can achieve anything without {cu}, but sometimes at the expense of
> adding terminators. Your example is splendid. If we wanted to omit {cu}, we
> could instead use
> 
> .iure'e le cevni ku kurji ko
> 
> (using the actual terminator for LE in place of the catch-all {cu}), or we
> could rearrange things so we wouldn't need any separator at all.
> 
> .iure'e le cevni ko kurji
> 
> All of them are valid, all mean exactly the same thing, and your style is
> entirely your choice. The last form is the shortest, and matches my
> personal style. The {ku} version may be better as you're getting the hang
> of terminators. The {cu} version has the marginal benefit of explicitly
> marking the selbri, instead of relying on the listener to know that we've
> gotten to that level (I've heard people praise that, again in more
> complicated examples where it makes a difference). TMTOWTDI

I actually said "iure'e le cevni ku kurji ko" when I read it aloud, 
anticipating the "ku-" of "kurji". The short version is also made entirely of 
amphibrachyes (if "ré'e" is so stressed), which is pe'i the most natural foot 
for Lojban. I've come up with some sayings in amphibrachic n-meter, such as 
"lo drata cu muvdu .ijo lo se drata cu klama fu zi'o".

Pierre
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