Re: [lojban-beginners] Re: mi kakne lo bajra

[Ian Johnson <blindbravado@gmail.com>]

How is that a shortcut? You do something confusing and save 1 tiny syllable. Possibly 2 if you need to terminate the abstractor.

mu'o mi'e latros.

2010/10/28 Krzysztof Sobolewski <jezuch@interia.pl>

Dnia czwartek, 28 października 2010 o 06:03:26 Lindar napisał(a):

> There is no implicit event-ness of the x2 of kakne, it's just that
> it's required to make sense.
> {.i mi kakne lo bajra} literally means something like "I am capable of
> a runner.".
> No sense is made.

I would not be surprised if hypothetical future native speakers of lojban would find this shortcut very convenient, though...
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