[lojban-beginners] Re: spofu pemci

["Turniansky, Michael" <MICHAEL.A.TURNIANSKY@saic.com>]

Xorxes:
> On 3/15/07, Turniansky, Michael <MICHAEL.A.TURNIANSKY@saic.com> wrote:
> > Xorxes asks:
> > > How about making use of the x2 of {gleki}?
> > >  .i dansu je sanga je gleki
> > >  lo nu lo mi jdini cu banzu
> >
> >  But then you are also forcing it to be the x2 of dansu and sanga.
Not
> > sure that's a good plan.. maybe changing line 3's lo nu to "tu'a",
> > though?
> 
> Changing {lo nu} to {tu'a} would make it ungrammatical, though.
> 
  True.  I guess we better just prepend it rather than changing.

> I don't think the tanru {dansu je sanga je gleki} can have as its
> x2 a conflation of the x2's of dansu, sanga and gleki. What would
> that mean? The place structure of a tanru is the place structure
> of its last component.
>
  It's not?  Oh...Upon further reading I see it is not. I guess in my
mind, I always thought that "LE broda cu brode JA  brodi LE brodo"  was
equivalent to "LE broda cu brode GI'A brodi vau LE brodo" => "LE broda
cu brode LE brodo .i JA LE broda cu brodi LE brood"  (do I have THAT
right, at least??)

          --gejyspa