Re: [lojban] Re: paroi ro mentu

["Jorge Llambias" <jjllambias@hotmail.com>]

la djorden cusku di'e

> > baku zo'u ge mi klama la paris gi mi klama la romas
>
> This works in this case, but as we discussed it's not something you
> can generally do unless you move every other tense (and in the paroi
> case, move everything with a quantifier) into the prenex also to
> preserve order.

Of course, but exactly the same happens with {pa prenu}. You
can't treat it separately from all other things that have
relevant scope.

> >       ta'eku mi klama la paris e la romas
> >
> > This is:
> >
> >       ta'eku zo'u ge mi klama la paris gi mi klama la romas
> >       Typically, I go both to Paris and to Rome.
>
> I agree with the first line (though, as I said above it doesn't work
> in the general case without moving other shit into the prenex also)

Of course, everything with scope that comes before it must move
to the prenex before it.

> but I think your translation to english is bad.  I think the sentence
> means the translation you give for the next sentence.  To get the
> sentence you said, I think you would need either
>         ta'eku mi klama la paris. jo'u la romas.
> or
>         ta'eku mi klama la paris. joi la romas.

Ok. That's a possibility. You're saying that tags never
have scope over other sumti. Then when we apply this to
{paroiku}:

(1a)      paroiku mi klama la paris e la romas

expands to:

(1b)      paroiku mi klama la paris ije paroiku mi klama la romas

And:

(2a)      paroiku mi klama ro le re tcadu

expands to:

(2b)      roda voi tcadu zo'u paroiku mi klama da
         For each of the (two) cities, I once went to it.

Also:

(3)       paroi le pavdei e le reldei mi klama la paris

will expand to:

(3a)      paroi le pavdei mi klama la paris
         ije paroi le reldei mi klama la paris

And similarly:

(4)        paroi ro le re djedi mi klama la paris

will expand as:

(4a)       roda voi djedi zo'u paroi da mi klama la paris

Q.E.D.

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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