Re: Questions

[John Cowan <cowan@LOCKE.CCIL.ORG>]

la xorxes. joi da cusku be di'e casnu

> > >> Could I say
> > >>
> > >>         mi ckire sei rapli
> > >>
> > >
> > >I don't really feel comfortable with {sei}. I don't fully understand it.
> >
> > I don't know I do either, but that is consistent with how I use it.  I tend
> > to think of it as simply a way of attatching something to a sentence without
> > any precise logical relationship to the sentence.
>
> The problem (or maybe not) that I see is that inside a quotation, sei
> talks about the text, but here it talks about the action described by
> the text. Maybe it is not a problem, but Lojban tends to distinguish
> these two things carefully, and here we seem to be ignoring the
> distinction.

How about "mi ckire sei la'edei rapli"?

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John Cowan                                              cowan@ccil.org
                        e'osai ko sarji la lojban.