[lojban] Re: loi preti be fi lo nincli zo'u tu'e

[Robin Lee Powell <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 10:19:24AM -0500, Robert LeChevalier wrote:
> At 01:33 PM 1/19/03 +0000, Martin Bays wrote:
> >How to use functions with ranges beyond the numbers? E.g. if I have a
> >function f:A->B with A and B sets {fy fancu abu noi selcmi ku'o by
> >noi selcmi}, what's f(x)? According to jbofi'e, {ma'o fy boi xy} and
> >{le ma'o fy boi xy} are both ungrammatical, and does {li ma'o fy boi
> >xy} make sense?
> 
> You're missing needed grammatical markers.  Exactly which ones can be
> elided and still work might take some experimentation, but
> 
> vei ma'o fy boi xy works
> the complete grammar of the above is
> vei ma'o fy boi [te'u] xy [boi] [ku'e] [ve'o]

I don't know what "vei ma'o fy boi xy" is, but it's *not* f(x), IMO.  It
could be (f(x)), but I don't know why one would do that.

-Robin

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