[lojban-beginners] Re: Possesives in lojban

[Alex Joseph Martini <alexjm@umich.edu>]

I believe you need the terminator ku, as in le le ninmu ku cukta. The
word cu indicates that the next word is the selbri, which is not the
case here. Ku marks the end of a sumti.

The ambiguity is not obvious with a two word pair, but consider the
phrase le le gerku ninmu cukta.  Here, it is not clear if le gerku ninmu
modifies le cukta, or if it should be le gerku modifying le ninmu cukta.
The problem is that it is unclear where one group ends and the other
begins. This is where the ku comes in; it ends one sumti group so that
there is no ambiguity.

(Sorry about the weird vocabulary in examples, I don't know quite enough
gismu to say much intelligent. I have never heard of a dog woman's book
either...)

See the section on terminators of chapter 6 in Lojban for Beginners for
more of these terminators -- there are quite a few of them.

http://ptolemy.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/lojbanbrochure/lessons/less6.html#less6terminators

mu'o mi'e .alex

On Sat, 10 Dec 2005, Dmitry wrote:

> Hi, everybody, nice to talk with you. A week ago I began to learn Lojban 
> again, after a two years pause (-;
> So, I have simple question.
>
> There is an exercise on possessives, convert "pe" to nested form
> le cukta pe le ninmu -->
>
> I offered:
> le le ninmu cu cukta
>
> Is it wrong? Answers page says "You can't do this (for now): le le ninmu 
> cukta is ambiguous.". But how about "cu"?
>
>
> --
> keigu nezumi.