Re: [lojban-beginners] oi bei

[Ian Johnson <blindbravado@gmail.com>]

Though I suppose as xorxes pointed out, we could simply be forced to terminate every {be ... be'o} construction. But {be} was conceived of, as best I can tell, as being much like a genitive case (in English, like the word "of"). Thus usually {be} appears with a single sumti in the chain, which means saving the {be'o} saves more words, especially in speech, than saving {bei} does.

mi'e la latro'a mu'o

On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 11:34 AM, TR NS <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:

Why is bei necessary in a be ... be'o construction? Is seems extraneous.

It's not strictly necessary, just convenient, so you don't need a terminator in "broda lo brode be ko'a ko'e", which was considered to be potentially more frequent than "broda lo brode be ko'a bei ko'e".

mu'o mi'e xorxes.

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