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Re: [lojban] Re: Shakespearian word order



la and cusku di'e

> > > LEAR: Dost thou call me fool, boy?      John Cowan
> > > FOOL: All thy other titles              http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
> > >              thou hast given away:      jcowan@reutershealth.com
> > >       That thou wast born with.         http://www.reutershealth.com
> > > 
> > We can imitate the strange word order in Lojban by using a postnex:
> >  ro le do drata noltcita do se bejdu'a zo'au ny poi do se jinzi
> > mu'o mi'e xorxes
> 
> {ro lo do drata noltcita poi do se jinzi} is better meaningwise. I
> can't see a way to get that with the discontinuous/extrapositional
> word order.

I'd say:

1)   ro lo do drata noltcita poi do se jinzi ku'o do se bejdu'a 

2)   ro lo do drata noltcita do se bejdu'a zo'au ny poi do se jinzi

are identical in meaning. What else could the dislocated restrictive
phrase do?

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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