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

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

On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 05:06:25PM -0700, Lindar wrote:
> In fact, most of the new generation -does- speak that way ({.i lo
> brode ku broda}) just so the newer students will see terminators
> being used. We tend to actively discourage the use of {cu} unless
> it's allowing elision of two or more terminators, because then
> students start to internalise {cu} as English "is" or "am", and
> then you start seeing confused newbies 

That's an interesting argument; missed that on my first read.

> that don't actually know how to terminate that say things like {mi
> cu dunda zo'e zo'e} (I have actually seen stuff like this).

1.  I don't see how that use of {cu} has anything to do with
thinking of {cu} as the copula.

2.  That example looks perfectly valid to me except for the extra
{cu}.  Am I missing something?

-Robin

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