[lojban-beginners] Re: Assistance in studying Lojban required. Some-one who would like to converse in Lojban with newbie is wanted.

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

On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 04:36:58PM -0400, Michael Turniansky wrote:
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> Michael wrote:
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> >.i mi cpedu lenu mi penmi le la lojban. tavla
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> Does this parse properly 

Yes.

> without a ku after lojban because "tavla" can't be part of a
> cmevla sequence? (i.e. if we had said ".. le le lojbo tavla" that
> wouldn't be grammatical, we'd need "le le lojbo ku tavla")

Correct, but you can't have ".lojban. tavla" as anything but a cmene
followed by a brivla; there's no way to merge those as written into
one thing, the way "lojbo tavla" can be.

-Robin

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