[lojban-beginners] Re: First Complex Lujvo

[Jorge "Llambías" <jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar>]

--- Travis Garris <ptg_thug@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > {mi cmana kevna zbasu}
> 
> The magic of that statement is still just beyond me. 
> I would start by wondering what the x2 and x3 of cmana
> were.  "I'm a mountain with caves...wha--?"  I guess a
> cu before zbasu would help.

{cmana kevna zbasu} is a tanru, {cmana} modifies {kevna}
and then {cmana kevna} modifies {zbasu}. A cu before zbasu 
would be ungrammatical, because cu can only go in front of 
the whole selbri, which in this case is {cmana kevna zbasu}.

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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