Re: [lojban-beginners] Re: gismu as sumti

[Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com>]

kei is the terminator for the abstractors (nu, ka, du'u si'o, etc...).  ku is the terminator for gadri (lo, la, le, li).  Both can often times be omitted, but sometimes not.  So you're right, they don't mean a whole lot.  In fact, they don't carry any semantic information at all, they just serve as syntactic closing braces.

(   lo(   nu(   klama lo( zarci  )[ku]     )kei     prenu  )ku melbi  )

(   the(    event-of(    going-to  a/the-store  )  type-of person ) is beautiful )

On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 2:44 AM, la nub <lagelace@gmail.com> wrote:

Ah yes. Thanks for all the responses. That does clear things up quite
nicely. And just in case you were wondering, I am a programmer.

Two more questions though, what do kei and ku mean? I know nu means a
state or event, and can guess that si'o is an abstractor like nu, but
these two words seem to have no meaning at all.

Please clarify.

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