Re: [lojban-beginners] Reusing ke'a?

[kfa@gmx.net]

On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 12:13:01 -0300
Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 11:14 AM,  <kfa@gmx.net> wrote:
> > Hi @,
> >
> > Can I reuse ke'a in a subsequent bridi to avoid a longer or repetitive pro-sumti construction? Like this:
> >
> > co'e zo'e voi le ke'a zo'e cu co'e .i ke'a co'e ...
> 
> That's not grammatical, but you can make it grammatical by removing
> "le". (And you don't need "cu" there.)
> 
Hm, just found it doesn't parse with jbofihe, though I reduced it from a sentence which parsed. Must have forgotten something. It's supposed to mean "There is something1 whose something2 is somehow. That something2 does ...", therefore the {le} to make a possessive construction.

> And no, "ke'a" only makes sense inside a relative clause.
> 
I understand. I just wondered if it would be possible to cheat a little, if a pro-sumti which is grammatically correct but doesn't make sense in its place, could be interpreted applying the meaning of its previous occurrence, if near enough. I know it's a human assumption.

feliks.

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