Re: [lojban-beginners] lo do ckiku ma zvati

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 11:44:06AM -0600, Jonathan Jones wrote:
> I think starting out with elidable terminators not elided would probably be
> confusing to beginners.
> 
> {lo gerku cu jersi lo ractu}
> (a) dog (begin selbri) chase (a) rabbit
> 
>  vs
> 
> {lo gerku ku cu jersi lo ractu ku vau}
> (a) dog (end sumti) (begin selbri) chase (a) rabbit (end sumti) (end bridi)
> 
> Not eliding those terminators makes even the simplest statements seem
> horribly complicated. 

Exactly.  The second version is *horrible* for beginners, IMO.  Even
without the unnecessary {cu}.  It just adds huge complexity and
verbosity for no useful gain.

The *vast* majority of beginner sentences need exactly one {cu}, and
no other terminators.  Teaching them in that context is pointless.

-Robin

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