Re: [lojban-beginners] .isemu'ibo

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

On Sunday, April 22, 2012 09:55:44 Álvaro Vallejo wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Could anyone, please, help me with the grammar of ".isemu'ibo"?  I know it
> means "so", but I don't know if the following interpretation is right:
> 
> mu'i ="because of reason", from mukti =motive.
> "semu'i" would mean "the action motivated by something".
> "bo" is a short scope link, linking to what comes next...
> then, the literal translation/interpretation would be "the action motivated
> by the preceding sentence is what follows:"

"mu'i" is "because of motive..."; "semu'i" is "with motivated action...". "bo" 
is there to keep "semu'i", which normally is a preposition, from claiming the 
sentence's subject as its object. It has the side effect of making three or 
more sentences connected by ".i<prep>bo" group from right to left. I'm not 
sure how to get around that. You got the right idea.

Pierre
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