Re: [lojban-beginners] Terminator Elision Question.

[Demian Koller <d3m1ank@gmail.com>]

.ua mi ckire do

On Friday, February 22, 2013 3:27:01 PM UTC-8, v4hn wrote:
> 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}.
>
>
> v4hn

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