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RE: [lojban] registry of experimental cmavo




la and cusku di'e

What are examples of things more than a bridi that you want
inside a du'u?

For example two bridi. It can be done with ge...gi..., but it
means I have to plan ahead to start with a ge.

I would want something unquantifiable that denotes
a sentence (or other abstract linguistic form). In effect, I
want something that is semantically like LI rather than like LO.

LI is sintactically quantifiable, even if it doesn't mean anything.

(This is how I feel about all Lojban's quoting devices, btw.)

I could live with a grammar change that allows "li" to have as
complement lu/zo and ideally sumti-tails, so as to allow "li ka",
"li du'u".

I don't think that's very practical. Maybe what we could have
is a PA that is a non-quantifier. Maybe just {tu'o}?
So {li pa} = {tu'o li pa}, and we could use {tu'o du'u} for
non-quantified du'u.

How do you say "Every time I say goodbye, I cry a little"?

va'o ro nu mi tolrinsa kei mi milxe le ka klaku

> >8. nonveridicality indicator (a) with grammar of NA, (b) that can
> >occur in relative phrases
>
> I don't know, maybe {je'ucu'i}?

So long as it is possible to unambiguously and uncumbersomely indicate
its scope.

I don't think the last word has been said yet on how indicators work
in relative clauses, but my impression is that in {noi je'ucu'i}
the indicator would apply to the relative clause only.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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