Re: [lojban-beginners] sei vs to

[Minimiscience <minimiscience@gmail.com>]

de'i li 11 pi'e 05 pi'e 2010 la'o fy. tijlan .fy. cusku zoi skamyxatra.
> One little advantage of {sei} is that its terminator {se'u} is elidable in
> more occasions than {to}'s {toi} is:
> 
>  ma prali sei la alis pensi [se'u] ti
>  ma prali to la alis pensi toi ti
> 
> But an easy change in the word order would offset that advantage:
> 
>  ma prali ti sei la alis pensi [se'u]
>  ma prali ti to la alis pensi [toi]
.skamyxatra

... except that TO...TOI can contain any text, not just a {bridi}, so if the
current sentence is followed by an "{.i}" and another sentence, the "{toi}"
will be needed to keep the "{to}" from enclosing everything after it.  However,
if the current sentence is instead terminated by "{li'u}" (as the one in
question in {la .alis.} is), the "{toi}" will then be elidable.

mu'omi'e .kamymecraijun.

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