[lojban-beginners] Re: lo'u poi ke'a le'u

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 06:39:37PM +0100, Yann Le Du wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> In the lojban tutorial, chapter 9, exercise 7, question 9, would
> it be ok to use lo'u poi ke'a le'u instead of lo'u pe le'u in :

> .i la djiotis. noi to'e se cinri lenu catlu cu cpedu le nu klama kei le 
> bevri pe zu'a vo'a
> 
> which would thus become :
> 
> .i la djiotis. noi to'e se cinri lenu catlu cu cpedu lenu klama kei le 
> bevri poi ke'a zu'a vo'a

No, that doesn't parse, because there needs to be a selbri in a poi
clause.

> By the way, are there situations where poi/noi could not replace pe/ne ?

Yes, all of them.  Now, you can replace "pe lo broda" with "poi
srana lo broda"; those are exactly equivalent, IIRC.

-Robin

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