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[lojban-beginners] go'o & multiple future bridi
In example 6.13 of CLL, shown below with surrounding text, go'o is used,
it appears to repeat multiple future bridi; if this is correct, what
terminates the list of future bridi?
--Stephen Simmons
The cmavo ``go'o'', ``nei'', and ``no'a'' have been little used so far.
They repeat respectively some future bridi, the current bridi, and the
bridi that encloses the current bridi (``no'a'', unlike the other
members of the go'i- series, can repeat non-sentence bridi). Here are a
few examples:
6.13) mi nupre le nu mi go'o
.i ba dunda le djini le bersa
.i ba dunda le zdani le tixnu
I promise the event-of I [repeat future bridi]
[Future] give the money to-the son
[Future] give the house to-the daughter
I promise to do the following:
Give the money to my son.
Give the house to my daughter.
(Note: The Lojban does not contain an equivalent of the ``my'' in the
colloquial English; it leaves the fact that it is the speaker's son and
daughter that are referred to implicit. To make the fact explicit, use
``le bersa/tixnu be mi''.)