[lojban-beginners] Re: Broda

["Chris Howlett" <chris@balcomie.freeserve.co.uk>]

Ok, that makes sense. How much of "ni'o jarco lo du'u ci'i mulna'usle
cei broda cu zasti" does broda become?

Chris.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org 
> [mailto:lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org] On 
> Behalf Of Robin Lee Powell
> Sent: 26 August 2004 00:45
> To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org
> Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: logical proofs?
> 
> 
> On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 12:29:51AM +0100, Chris Howlett wrote:
> > > 
> > > The rest of you should note that this isn't even *close* 
> to begginer 
> > > Lojban.
> > >
> > 
> > I concur - although the maths is quite fun (I'm a maths 
> grad). But I 
> > do have one lojban query:
> > 
> > What does broda do, and how does it work?
> 
> Loosely, {<incredibly long tanru> cei broda} assigns broda to 
> the meaning of the incredibly long tanru.
> 
> > My wordlist gives it as
> > "predicate var 1: 1st assignable variable predicate (context 
> > determines place structure)", which makes it sound like a pro-bridi.
> 
> Pretty much, yeah.
> 
> > So why not just use the bridi itself?
> 
> In this case, because it was ji'i 7 syllables.  :-)
> 
> -Robin
> 
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