Re: [lojban-beginners] I love sei

[Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com>]

oh... actually yeah, now that I take a second (closer) look at the original, it looks fine for the same reason that I mentioned earlier.

{sei za'a do jinvi mi plana} breaks down into:

I observe you opine, I am fat.  It doesn't seem right because we usually don't put {sei} like constructs at the beginning of sentences in english, but it amounts to the same thing as "I'm fat, you opine ( I think )".  The {do jinvi} is all that gets sucked up into the {sei} which leaves the {mi plana} as the main bridi.

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Timo Paulssen <timonator@perpetuum-immobile.de> wrote:

On 10/06/2010 05:23 PM, Luke Bergen wrote:
> 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.

It appears to me, though, that le la kampu ku protest was not about the
grammar of sei, but the semantics of the sentence.

mu'o mi'e timos

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