On 8/1/06, Alex Martini <alexjm@umich.edu> wrote:
>
> On Jul 31, 2006, at 11:13 PM, Chris Capel wrote:
> > This is valid Lojban (I hope):
> >
> > ba zi bo le cnino cu sipna
>
> .ienai jboski chokes on the {bo}. Although, I don't have a DOS
> emulator handy on this computer, or i'd run it through the official
> parser just to be sure.
That's odd. In your quote you have "ba zi bo", but in the post I sent
I have "i ba zi bo". Yes, jbofi'e chokes on it without the "i".
After running into this problem a few times, I concluded that {bo} is a connector dependent on the previous statement. Two statements connected by a {bo} are kind of like a single sentence.
E.g.
mi pensi i se ni'i bo mi zasti
I think, therefore I am.
So the dependence requires the {.i} which at least implies a previous statement, & precludes the {ni'o} because a sentence can't spill over into a new paragraph.
My explanation probably suffers from quite a bit of imprecision, but it's something like that.
mu'o mi'e komfo,amonan