[lojban-beginners] Re: Although

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

On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 04:24:22PM -0400, Bruce Webber wrote:
> And I see that I have a lot more Lojban to learn. What does "bo"
> do? Adam's statement was grammatical; when I saw ".i" I thought
> that started a new (independent) sentence and I fed only that part
> to jbofi'e.

Several things.  In this case (that is, in {mi xagji
.i se mu'i nai bo mi na citka}), it makes {se mu'i nai} into a
sentence connective, and stops it from eating the next sumti (and
hence acting as a sumti tcita).

-Robin

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