Re: [lojban-beginners] Abstraction terminators: kei and ku

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Zifre <kmicklas@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> lonu mrobi'o kei xlali
...
> but what is the
> logic behind this (putting events into a tanru)? What would the
> original example mean ("a dying type-of bad thing")?

Right, "a deathly bad thing". I guess if you use "mrori'a" instead you
would get "a deadly bad thing".

>Has this type of
> construct ever been used in real Lojban?

I don't recall seeing "nu ... kei" used as a seltau, but I have used
NUs as main selbri. For example, you could say:

   lo nu viska cu nu krici
   "Seeing is believing."

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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