Re: [lojban-beginners] sei vs to

[Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com>]

That brings up a question for me.  In that sentence that you gave tijlan, what about the text tells us that the {fi lo cukta...} applies to the {prali} and not to the {pensi}?  Does {sei} take a bridi, a selbri, or something else?  What terminates a {sei} or is the idea of terminating {sei} as absurd as terminating {zo}?  I've perused the CLL but {sei} isn't documented very well there from what I have found.

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Timo Paulssen <timonator@perpetuum-immobile.de> wrote:

tijlan wrote:
> {sei} and {to}... When should we use which? What is the difference between a
> discursive element and a parenthetical element?
>
> mu'o mi'e tijlan

In my experience, a sei is more special. You can use it in place of
words like {pe'i}, {ka'u}, {ja'o} and friends. So in la alis you will
find a sentence like {ma prali sei la alis pensi fi lo cukta be cau lo
pixra} or something similar.

{to}, on the other hand would be something you'd say yourself, while if
you find a sei in a quote, it could very well also come from the quoter.

mu'o mi'e timos

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