[lojban] Re: [lojban-beginners] Re: Some questions

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

On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 04:46:09PM -0400, Invent Yourself wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Robin Turner wrote:
> 
> > Rob Speer wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >>3) Is something like "fa mi fa do broda" grammatical? What
> > >>would that mean?
> > >
> > >
> > > It's certainly grammatical. It's also been given a meaning -
> > > the same as "mi e do broda".
> >
> > True - the first "fa" is not necessary, though. The same can be
> > done with any place e.g. "mi klama la paris. fe la .istanbul."
> > But why use FA when you can use ".e"?
> 
> 
> Somehow I think ".e" is not the most useful interpretation that
> could be given such overloading.

It's what I've always used.

-Robin

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