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

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 10:15 AM, MorphemeAddict <lytlesw@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 9:10 AM, ianek <janek37@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 20 Mar, 13:23, Jonathan Jones <eyeo...@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.
>>
>> What a about {lo nu broda lo nu brode lo nu brodi lo nu brodo ku ku ku
>> ku brodu}? Jbofi'e says that it needs at least these four {ku} if we
>> want to avoid {cu}.
>> I like avoiding {cu}, but only when it doesn't require a string of
>> more than two terminators.
>
> Maybe the original meant three distinct terminators. You've used only one,
> albeit four times.

In that case, the worst case is that it takes a maximum of one
distinct terminator (repeated however many times) to replace "cu". The
same terminator for the outermost structure (sometimes repeated)
should always do the trick. So the "maximum of three" doesn't really
work under either interpretation.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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