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Re: [lojban-beginners] question about soi and go'i

{soi} seems to have largely fallen out of use.

If you wanted to ask that question after someone has said {mi viska lo nanmu}...

with soi, I think you could do {.i xu go'i soi do} which expands to {xu do viska lo nanmu soi do} which I think does what you want.

Or you can just say {.i xu ji'a ny viska do}.  Also, while I love the construct, I haven't seen a lot of vo'a and friends around.  I hope to see them more though, they seem awfully useful.

Although, I'm not 100% sure what the difference is between {vo'a} and {lo go'i}.

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 6:05 PM, zegma <hardquannone@hotmail.fr> wrote:
coi rodo
I am a beginner lojbanist, i've read the seventh chapter of Lojban
Reference Grammar about pro-bridi and pro-sumti and there is something
I don't understand about "soi" ;
if I want to question the reciprocity of the previous utterance of my
interlocutor, can I use "soi"?
If I use soi this way, I have to use go'i to pick up the previous
bridi, then a new question arise ; should I use pro-sumti like "ri"
with soi, or does reflexive pro-sumti of the vo'a serie apply?

For exemple, if my interlocutor said "mi viska le nanmu"
if I want to ask "is it reciprocal?"
should I say something like "xu go'i ra'o soi vo'a vo'e" ?

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