Re: [lojban-beginners] Re: Complicated parallelism question

[Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Hussell <jeremyhussell@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 29, 9:03 pm, Lindar <lindartheb...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> While that certainly parses, I'm not exactly sure that it means what you
>> want it to. I'd recommend you double-check that.
>
> Well, I double-checked, and I still think it means what I think it
> means. Could you be a little more specific about your objection,
> instead of spreading FUD?
>
> If one person is unclear about how this construct works, then it's
> likely a bunch more lurkers are too, so: my understanding is {mi cilre
> fi la loglan e ba bo la lojban} means the same as {mi cilre fi la
> loglan i je ba bo mi cilre fi la lojban}, and in both cases lojban is
> learned about *after* loglan is learned about. Another way to say the
> same thing is {mi cilre fi la loglan gi'e ba bo cilre fi la lojban}.
> There is no way to combine a tense and a logical connective in
> forethought form, although they can be expressed separately as {mi
> cilre fi ba gi la loglan gi la lojban} and {mi cilre fi ge la loglan
> gi la lojban}. There's also no way to express an afterthought tense
> *without* a logical connective, except between sentences.
>

  Hussell is correct. See CLL, Chapter 10, section 17 (example 17.6)
It is definitely an obscure part of the grammar, but certainly useful.
 Thank you, Hussell.
            --gejyspa

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