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[lojban-beginners] Re: "do" after "vau"



Vid Sintef schrieb:
> In the first chapter of la nicte cadzu by Robin Lee Powell is a sentence:
> 
> .i la'a la'e di'u simlu lo ka mutce cizra vau do
> 
> What's the syntax for the "do" after "vau"?
> I know that an attidudinal after "vau" would cover the whole sentence;
> but I can't see the meaning of "do" here.

the vau closes the bridi that is inside the ka abstractor, so that the
sentence in the ka abstractor is just {mutce cizra} rather than {mutce
cizra do} which is what it would have been without the vau.
kei would have worked the same way in this case.

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