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Re: [lojban] Grammar question.



--- Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> In this sentence:
> 
>     le ckilu be le za'i le ni bilma bi'o mabla cu ckini le ni kecti
>     bi'o xebni
> 
> Why can the cu be replaced with ku but not vau or kei?

Because neither {vau} nor {kei} will close {le ni bilma bi'o mabla}.
You will get {ni bilma bi'o mabla vau kei} as a seltau to tertau
{ckini}. (I don't think there is any case in which a terminator is
preferrable to {cu}.)

mu'o mi'e xorxes



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