Re: RET: left factoring

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

mi joi la xorxes. cusku be di'e casnu

> > The question of what happens to logical connectives within selbri
> >
> > 6)      le citka be le mlatu .e le gerku cu zvati le kumfa
> >
> > is still open, I think.
>
> I don't think that there can be much doubt.
>
>         le citka be le mlatu e le gerku
>
> can be expressed as:
>
>         ro da voi ke'a citka le mlatu e le gerku
>
> which in turn is:
>
>         ro da voi ge ke'a citka le mlatu gi ke'a citka le gerku
>
> You cannot expand it out in the outer bridi. The connector {.e}
> is connecting sumti of {citka}. It is not connecting sumti of {zvati}.

On consideration, and a phonecon with lojbab, I now agree that this
is correct (contra {la daryl.}).

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