Re: [lojban-beginners] oi bei

[Ian Johnson <blindbravado@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 11:26 AM, TR NS <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:

Considering the reasoning, it seems to me that the most concise solution would be to have two different cmavo for {be}. One that only takes a single sumti, and another that can take any number but has to be terminated. 

This would be harder to learn, and it would require an amount of forethought that isn't really worth the amount of word savings it would provide.

Also, {bei} can be very useful for terminator elision. Another artificial example:

{.i broda be lo nu brode lo nu brodi lo nu brodo lo nu brodo bei ko'a}

Writing that with {be*}, you would need:

{.i broda be* lo nu brode lo nu brodi lo nu brodo lo nu brodo kei kei kei kei ko'a}

which is both much more verbose and much more difficult to read.

Actually, this has taught me a nice trick. If you have a bridi which you anticipate will consist of a relationship between more than two bulky sumti, put the selbri up front and then write it with {be}. (With two or fewer you can exploit {cu} and conversion.) Then you can use {bei} to terminate your big sumti.

mi'e la latro'a mu'o

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