Re: [lojban-beginners] Visual mem for pinxe on Memrise.

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Michael Turniansky
<mturniansky@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   BTW, the reason (and again, I am conjecturing here) that Xorxes may prefer
> kansi'u to kansa in most cases is perhaps he perceives it as implying that
> lo kansa is  subordinate to lo se kansa, in that the se kansa is the one
> that is actually the x1 of the lo te kansa, and lo kansa is simply a
> "hanger-on". (similar to a  sidju relationship)

I don't have a preference for one over the other. If you want to have
the two (or more) people doing something together in one slot, you use
"kansi'u", if you want the two people (or groups) doing something
together in different slots, you use "kansa". So which one you use
depends on how you want to structure your sentence.

In the case of "kansi'u xabju" vs "kansa xabju" I said I preferred the
former simply because the ones doing the xabju go in the same slot (x1
of xabju), but since it's a tanru "kansa xabju" can't be said to be
completely wrong, just not so directly interpretable. But "simxu
xabju", would make litttle sense.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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