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Re: [lojban] pro-sumti question



On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 08:02:55PM -0400, pycyn@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 7/4/2002 5:08:35 PM Central Daylight Time, 
> lojban-out@lojban.org writes:
> 
> 
> > IIRC, ri, ra and ru skip sumti of: ri ra ru ko'[aeiou] mi do ti ta tu ...
> > Additionally, "ra" != "rixire".  ra just refers to a further-than-last
> > sumti, not the next to last.
> 
> This sounds right, once said, so I withdraw my hope that {ri/a/u} is 
> unambiguous, but hope this avoids the kind of doubling up that Nora 
> suggested.
> 

for the record (I think this may be what you meant, but it was phrased
slightly odd):
	- ri is unambiguous. ri xi <something> is unambiguous.
	- ra and ru are ambiguous.
	- ru must always refer to something earlier than a ra in the same
	  utterance.  (spoon example in chap7).

-- 
Jordan DeLong
fracture@allusion.net

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