Re: [lojban-beginners] Getting the bridi from an abstract sumti

[selpa'i <m3o@plasmatix.com>]

On 04.09.2013 22:41, mudri wrote:
> I'm looking to translate “It seems to be broda. Is it?” without
> repeating {broda}. Is there any way to do that?
>
> ko'a simlu lo ka broda .i ko'a [???] ri

Sadly, there is no word specifically for this purpose.

You can use {cei broda}, which requires lots of syllables and 
forethought:

(1) mi zgana lo nu lo gerku cu bajra cei broda .i xu do ji'a broda
    "I observe a dog running (hereby signified by broda). Do you also 
broda?"

A less syllable-intensive, more colloquial way is to use {co'e}, which 
usually gets the message across with a higher than chance probability:

(2) mi zgana lo nu lo gerku cu bajra .i xu do ji'a co'e
    "I observe a dog running. Do you also do-it?"

So, these are work-arounds, not the actual thing you are looking for, 
but they are as close as you can get to it. Also, simply repeating the 
word becomes cumbersome with large predicates such as tanru.

mu'o mi'e la selpa'i

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