[lojban-beginners] Re: {sei}

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

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The Book chapter9 12.9:
{lu mi klama seisa'a la djan cusku le zarci}

(I suppose {.} and {li'u} are missed in the original?)
Are these also valid:
{lu mi klama seicu'u la djan. le zarci li'u}
and, in an even more relaxed style,
{lu mi klama sei la djan. le zarci li'u}
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  When you say "li'u [is] missed" are you suggesting it's not there in error?  Remember that li'u is elidble.  It's never necessary at the end of a bridi.

"sei" takes out of the underlying bridi for the space of one single bridi (which must not have any sumtis after the brivla).  "cu'u la djan le zarci" is not a bridi, not is "la djan le zarci".

The original setnence reads like lthis "I am going {John says ß this is a note to the reader, a second bridi embedded in the original)} to the store".

 

         --gejyspa