Re: [lojban-beginners] Is it possible to completely get rid of {ku} in speech ?

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 6:23 AM, Jonathan Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com> wrote:

Well, in that case, I recommend cu, not ku. cu is actually easily elidable, unlike ku. I believe we determined not long ago that in the worst case, it would take a maximum of three terminators in the absence of cu to correctly terminate a grammatical structure, and rarely more than one.

cu is kind of like an optional half-.i, in that whereas .i implicitly adds whatever terminators are required to end the previous sentence and begin a new one, cu does the same, but only up the point of the selbri (, and please keep in mind that that is where my comparison ends- I doubt there are any other similarities between cu and .i).

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 5:38 AM, gleki <gleki.is.my.name@gmail.com> wrote:
Well. We are preparing a textbook that will teach how to speak lojban.
But this textbook must use as few words as possible.
I wanna get rid of all words that can be replaced by other words.

It's a textbook for newbies. So don't worry. It will be an introduction to Lojban.

On Monday, March 19, 2012 10:49:14 AM UTC+4, stevo wrote:
Even if it is possible to eliminate {ku} in speech, why would you want to?

stevo

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 2:35 AM, gleki <gleki.is.my.name@gmail.com> wrote:

Is it possible to completely get rid of {ku} in speech ? Can we rearrange words in extreme cases and use other cmavo like {kei} and {cu} ?

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