[lojban-beginners] Re: bo

["Karl Naylor" <karl.org@gmail.com>]

On 12/02/07, Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com> wrote:

> > Yes, I think he was thinking of things such as {ki'u} and {ku'i}.
> {ki'u} is a tag, it's in selma'o BAI, but {ku'i} is an attitudinal, in
> selma'o UI.

I think he was thinking of {mu'i} and made a typo..?  ;)

Indeed, I was thinking of sumti tcita like {mu'i} and getting confused
because the 'tightest binding' cmavo was being used to apply them as
if they were sentence connectives.  I think I understand Jorge's
explanation.  If I understand correctly, the use of {bo} for this
purpose just happens to follow from its grammar, having nothing really
to do with binding arguments tightly, and being a useful thing to do,
{bo} has come into common usage for the purpose.  Yes?

Thanks for your help, Jorge.