[lojban] Re: sumtcita needed, badly.

[Rob Speer <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 04:01:18PM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> Uhhh, "I say that you talked to me" is "mi cusku le du'u do mi tavla',
> isn't it?  "mi cusku lesedu'u do mi tavla" is "I say the sentece "do mi
> tavla"", isn't it?
> 
> The x2 of du'u is a literal sentence:
> 
>  du'u      NU       bridi abstract
>                     abstractor: predication/bridi abstractor; x1 is
>                     predication [bridi] expressed in sentence x2

You're thinking of abstractions as if they were brivla. The thing inside
"du'u" or "sedu'u" isn't the x1 or x2, it's [bridi]. x1 and x2 are two
different abstractions that come from this bridi. The {se} only switches
these places; it doesn't change what the du'u contains.

-- 
mu'o mi'e rab.spir