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

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

On Tuesday, March 20, 2012 10:00:23 Jonathan Jones 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.)

Also, "nu" can be terminated by "kei". Years ago I came up with "lo nu punji 
lo sovda be lo cipnrkuku ku ku ku zvati lo zdani be lo na'e cipnrkuku ku ku", 
which is contrived to have the syllable "ku" five times in a row, but describes 
an actual event in the life cycle of a brood parasite.

Pierre
-- 
li ze te'a ci vu'u ci bi'e te'a mu du
li ci su'i ze te'a mu bi'e vu'u ci

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