[lojban-beginners] Re: coi lojban.

[Invent Yourself <xod@thestonecutters.net>]

On Tue, 6 May 2003 tk1@despammed.com wrote:

> Hello,
>
> > The word formation rules are about the only *syntactic* rules Lojban
> > has.
> > http://www.lojban.org/publications/reference_grammar/chapter4.html
>
> Thanks.
>
> I am currently flipping through the reference grammar, and I just got
> another question: in Chapter 6 this example is given:
>
> 	13.3)	ro da poi prenu cu prami pa de poi finpe
> 		All somethings-1 which-are persons love one something-2
> 		    which-is a-fish.
> 		All persons love a fish (each his/her own).
>
> 	(This is not the same as "All persons love a certain fish"; the
> 	difference between the two is one of quantifier order.)
>
> If I change the above Lojban sentence to {pa de poi finpe cu se prami ro da
> poi prenu}, will the new sentence take on the first or second meaning? In
> other words, can the use of the word {se} potentially _change_ the meaning
> of a sentence, in addition to switching sumti order?



Yes, it can.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jboske/message/1717

(I would have given a non-jboske and more helpful reference but I can't
find any)


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