[lojban] Re: gratuitous use of kem, was Re: Lojban-English full dictionary effort- request for assistance

["Jorge Llambías" <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On 1/4/08, mungojelly@ixkey.info <mungojelly@ixkey.info> wrote:
>
> In fact, I'm thinking, you can throw a "kem" on the beginning of any
> lujvo and leave it with the same meaning, huh?  Or you could open up a
> bunch of parens like "kemkemkemkemkemcusku" and then they just get
> magically closed after the "cusku" and do nothing, right?

And similarly you can add any number of -ke'e at the end
of a lujvo.

Also, you can start a tanru with any number of useless ke,
but you can only use ke'e in tanru if there is a corresponding
opening ke.

> .i mi kemjbokelkepkemjbokei .eire'e
>
> mu'o mi'e doi bret.

Does {mi'e doi bret} mean you're talking to yourself?

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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