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[lojban-beginners] Re: (No In-Reply-To: <200302220519.h1M5Jfs6000898@miriam.letu.edu>



At 05:19 AM 2/22/03 +0000, la geib. wrote:

li remoi
Do place tags loop? (mi klama fu le karce va vi) probably is just bad, but I had the late-night idea that the last two sumti might be interpreted as x2 and x3, the next leftover places.
ki'e mu'o mi'e geib.

Others have already answered that: no, place tags don't loop. However, "vi" and "va" are not sumti, and so would not fill any x-sub-n place; they are, here, sumti tcita (place-tag-labels) themselves (acting something like prepositions), and therefore introduce places outside of and independent of the normal x1, x2, etc. The use of "vi" and "va" (and "vu") for sumti is is a common beginner problem, probably due to English's using "this" and "that" as both adjectives and pronouns ("I hit that ball" versus "I hit that"). The pronoun use is more properly translated by "ti" and "ta" (and "tu").


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mi'e noras                                             noras@lojban.org
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