Re: [lojban] Re: cfari

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

On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 07:04:05PM -0600, Jordan DeLong wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 03:25:13PM -0500, John Cowan wrote:
> > Robin Lee Powell scripsit:
> > 
> > > Those of you without time/ability to read the Lojban might
> > > might the topic interesting: xorxes was pointing out four
> > > places where I used a COI cmavo as though it was UI (i.e.,
> > > without following it with a name).  xorxes expressed his
> > > desire for COI cmavo to actually grammatically be like UI
> > > cmavo (which I'm inclined to agree with).
> > 
> > Well, UI binds to the previous word.  Is that what you were
> > doing? It's certainly grammatical to have COI by itself now,
> > although you need an explicit "do'u" if the next thing is a name
> > or sumti.
> 
> As cowan says, you need a do'u.
> 
> This is neccesary because otherwise you wouldn't be able to say
> things like the (extreemly frequent on irc) "coi rodo".  

coi itself is the *only* word I've seen get used properly in COI
that I can recall.

-Robin

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