[lojban-beginners] Re: What's up?

[HeliodoR <exitconsole@gmail.com>]

la robin. cusku ti

> On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 03:55:52PM +0200, HeliodoR wrote:
> > Well, if You think logically, the second {ma} (of {ma mo ma}
> > naturally) is kind of {zo'e} in fact.
>
> That's entirely incorrect.
>
> {ma mo ma} means "Give me two sumti, and a relation that relates
> them.".  This is very different from {ma mo zo'e}, which means "Give
> me a sumti and a relation that relates it to something unspecified".
>
> Now, in either case, since there's a mo in there, you're probably
> going to answer with a single full bridi, but technically the answer
> should be a sumti, a bridi, and another sumti, as seperate
> sentences.

.ua.uinai Now I see my reply was nonsense.

{ma mo zo'e} otherwise {ma mo} really means "Give me an argument

and a relation. (Don't care about other arguments.)"

I should have written "{ma mo} is more logical/covering/useful than

{ma mo ma}" instead of "{ma mo ma} actually is {ma mo}" which is

silly.

ki'e robin.

 

mi'e .xili,odor.