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Re: [lojban-beginners] I love sei



Actually I think Timo is right.  {sei} is funny in that it will take as many sumti as you give it, followed by selbri and then that's it.

Trailing sumti are attached to the parent bridi.  So if I say {mi nelci sei la tam cusku lo nu citka} I have said:  "I like, tom said, eating".  Not "I like, tom said the event of eating".  If you wanted to say that you would have to say {mi nelci sei la tam lo nu citka cu cusku}. Whatever that might mean, the {lo nu} there belongs to the cusku.  The other way is to use {be} like Timo does.

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Timo Paulssen <timonator@perpetuum-immobile.de> wrote:
On 10/02/2010 01:30 AM, David Gowers (kampu) wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 2:58 AM, Timo Paulssen
> <timonator@perpetuum-immobile.de> wrote:
>> How about this?
>>
>> sei za'a do jinvi mi plana
>
> do you mean
>
> sei za'a do jinvi be le du'u mi plana (imo 'you say I am fat' isn't
> break-upable like le do pu selsku)

No, I'm actually pretty certain what i said makes perfect sense. Could I
have the opinions of other lojbanists on this?

mu'o mi'e timos

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