Elided selbri

[Robin Turner <robin@Bilkent.EDU.TR>]

coi rodoi

I've been having correspondence with pc for a while on the
question of whether, and to what extent, one can have a Lojban
sentence without a selbri.  The Book is quite explicit in denying
that you can simply miss out a selbri in the same way that you
miss out trailing sumti, for example (p. 158).  However, there
exist sentences, or sentence fragments, without selbri, e.g.

lo smuci .i lo forca  (p. 154)

The sentence in question is in the draft of my Lesson 7 (
http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin/lesson7.html ) which reads

caku la djiotis. goi ko'i mo'ine'i

Here I omit the selbri since {mo'ine'i} implies coming in, and
Jyoti's manner of coming is not important, but this contradicts
the ruling on p. 158.  I could add {co'e}, but this would be
almost as long as simply saying

caku la djiotis. goi ko'i klama le barja

and I wanted to get a directional tense in to reinforce the stuff
in the previous lesson.  What do people think?

BTW, I'm working on the lessons again - slowly - after a long
period of inactivity caused by holidays etc.  I actually got as
far as completing the broken Lesson 5, but this got lost again as
well (probably the result of writing stuff on two different
computers, one of which has two OS's, so I keep copying the wrong
file, though perhaps there's just a jinx on this lesson!).

co'o mi'e robin.