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Re: [lojban-beginners] Re: Is it possible to completely get rid of {ku} in speech ?
On 20 March 2012 11:00, Jonathan Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com> wrote:
> I didn't actually do the experimenting to determine such a thing myself, so
> I really can't say exactly.
>
> However, your example is extremely contrived. I highly doubt that anyone
> would talk about an event of an event of an event of an event in any
> real-life situation, nor can I conceive of what such a thing is. I'm not
> even sure of what an event of an event is, let alone the fourth iteration.
> (lodu'u broda losi'o brode lonu brodi , on the other hand, at least makes
> some sort of coherent sense to me, however.)
lo nu broda lo nu brode lo nu brodi lo nu brodo is not an event of an event
of an event of an event. It is an event of broda, with broda2 being an
event, etc.
lo nunununu broda is an event of ... an event.
mu'o
mi'e .asiz.
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