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[lojban-beginners] Re: onamatopoeia in lojban



On 5/30/07, Turniansky, Michael [UNK] <MICHAEL.A.TURNIANSKY@saic.com> wrote:

but what if I
wanted it inside an utterance, like, "The dog says, 'Arf!, I want some
meat.'"?  Would I have to say the extremely clunky: le gerku cu cusku lu zoi
gy arf gy .i mi djica tu'a lo rectu li'u ?

Actually, bare cmevla are grammatical at the beginning of a text,
so {lu .arf. .i mi djica tu'a lo rectu li'u} is also grammatical.

More generally, see: <http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=sa%27ei>

Also, while I'm on the subject, is there a way to put connectors between FA
pieces?  I would have really liked to have said something in the first
sentence like

(ungramattical) "…. mi tavla fi jabo fo lo lojbau…." (in other words, when I
talk in or about lojban…)

That's not grammatical, but you could say {mi tavla bau ja se ra'a lo lojbau}.

mu'o mi'e xorxes