As I say, I garee with the
non-separation of .iseri'abo. As for "le mi cukta", while I
hear what you are saying, don't forget that it really is a shorthand way of
saying "le cukta pe mi". "mi" doesn't really modify
cukta in the same way that it would in "le me mi cukta" or "le
mi zei cukta", although it doesn't hurt to think of it your way. On
the other hand, I wouldn't take out the space between the le's in "le le gerku
ku bongu", either (although legally I could).
--gy
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Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 9:43
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To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org
Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re:
Dots and spaces (was: Logical connectives)
On 6/18/07, Turniansky, Michael [UNK]
<MICHAEL.A.TURNIANSKY@saic.com>
wrote:
Oddly, although I too prefer ".iseri'abo", I
always put a space before NU cmavo. I expect it's because of my English
language background, I think of it as "the event-of", rather than
"the-event-of". Similarly, I tend to not separate it in phrase
like "lemi", "levi", etc. because eI think of them with the
single English words "my" and "this", respectively….
I tend to separate "le" from others in a phrase like "le mi
cukta" so that the fact that "mi" modifies "cukta" and
"le" is the descriptor of "mi cukta" as a whole is clearer:
{ le | mi cukta } rather than { lemi | cukta }.
I prefer ".iseri'abo" to ".i se ri'a bo" since it's
semantically a specific version of ".i", altogether mediating two
sentences rather than separately being within and constituting one sentence: {
mi pu gunka | .iseri'abo | mi ca tatpi } rather than { mi pu gunka | .i | se
ri'a bo mi ca tatpi }.
mi'e vid