On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 02:52:02PM -0800, Demian Koller wrote:
> Would someone clarify something for me regarding a sentence? It comes from
> the Lojban for Beginners book, and it's an exercise in terminator elision: 'mi
> skicu li re boi re lo pendo' Obviously it means 'I describe the number 2 to
> 2 friends.' Removing the 'boi' ('mi skicu li re re lo pendo'), I come up
> with the meaning 'I describe the 22 individual friends.' But the book says
That would be {mi skicu re re lo pendo}
> the translation without 'boi' would be 'I describe the number 22 to a
> friend.' Does the 'li' before 're re' imply a terminator before the 'lo'?
Yes, the term governed by {li} takes up one sumti slot.
And {li} takes the longest following string which matches a number expression,
which in this case is {re re}.
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