[lojban-beginners] Re: Cogito ergo sum

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

  The bo is necessary in this context, because what the grammatical
function of .iBAIbo does is link the whole second sentence back to the
previous one as a BAI piece.  Without it you have two sentences:
mi pensi  (I think)
seni'i mi zasti  (entailed by me, something exists == mi zasti se ni'i
mi), since ni'i can only take a single sumti place
               --gejyspa


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From: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org
[mailto:lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org] On Behalf Of Matt Arnold
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 8:29 AM
To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org
Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Cogito ergo sum

Pierre,
can you explain the use of {bo} in this context?
-Eppcott

On 5/2/07, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 May 2007 23:02, Spencer Shepard wrote:
> > How would you say "I think, therefore I am" in Lojban?  Looking up
the
> > necessary words, I came up with <<le nu mi pensi [vau] [kei] [ka] cu
nibli
> > le nu mi zasti [vau] [kei] [ka] [vau]>>.  Did I use these constructs
> > correctly and with the right words?  Is there a simpler way?  I also
> > tried to include *all* of the optional separators to make sure I am
using
> > them correctly.
>
> s/ka/ku/. {ka} is an abstractor, not a terminator. {ka crino}
> means "greenness".
>
> You could also say {mi pensi .iseni'ibo mi zasti}.
>
> Pierre
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