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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''.)