[lojban-beginners] Re: seldetri

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

On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 05:41:43PM +0400, Aleksej R. Serdyukov
wrote:
> Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> >>>>of {lu tu'a le pixra be la murkas. de'i li repa pi'e bi pi'e
> >>>>renonovo li'u}
> >>>That sentence has no selbri.  Perhaps you meant "be de'i" ?
> >>Hm... Maybe {bei de'i}?
> >
> >Oh.  Yes.
> 
> Hm, doesn't it make {le pixra} dated again?
> 
> jbofi'e says it does.
> 
> And "Lojban for Beginners" does that to a letter. And doesn't say
> it's bad.

Yes, it's fine.

> But without {bei}, {tu'a} is dated. 

tu'a is not something that can be dated.

> Is {tu'a} an event that has to be guessed? Then what's the
> problem?

"tu'a" means "an unspecified abstraction associated with the
following sumti".

-Robin

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