[lojban-beginners] Re: x2 of cusku question

["Adam D. Lopresto" <adam@pubcrawler.org>]

On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Turniansky, Michael wrote:

>   You may very well be right, Karl, and thanks for the link.
> Originally, I WAS going to use "sedu'u" but then I worried that the
> argument to THAT had to be a literal string (delimited by lu..li'u, zo,
> zoi, or the like)

{se du'u} is indeed the correct way to do it.  It's still a bridi abstracter,
so it still takes a bridi, but it gives you a quote.

lu mi fenki li'u se du'u mi fenki

>  
>                --Mike T.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org
> [mailto:lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org] On Behalf Of Karl Naylor
> Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 10:22 AM
> To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org
> Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: x2 of cusku question
> 
> Isn't this a job for lesedu'u?
> http://ptolemy.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/lojbanbrochure/lessons/less7iquote.
> html
> 
> On 07/02/07, Turniansky, Michael <MICHAEL.A.TURNIANSKY@saic.com> wrote:
> 
> > do puzi cusku le du'u tu'a mi fenki  ("Just a moment ago you said I
> was
> > crazy...")
> 
> > Does the x2 argument always have to be a literal string, or can it be
> a
> > topic?  And if I am incorrect, how should this utterance be
> reformulated?
> 
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-- 
Adam Lopresto
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