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

[Pierre Abbat <phma@webjockey.net>]

On Friday 18 July 2003 10:14, Jordan DeLong wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 05:05:23PM +0300, Robin Turner wrote:
> > Craig wrote:
> > >Here's a related question for you. Is "broda fa ko'e cu brode"
> > > grammatical? If so, what would you guess it to mean?
> >
> > It's not grammatical, though "broda be fa ko'e brode" would be.  It
> > would be pointless to use "fa" here, though, since the first place after
> > "be" would also be the first place of the preceding tanru component.
> > You could say something meaningful using different place tags, though
> > e.g. "ta xamgu be fe le ka kufra zdani" - "That is a house which is good
> > by the standard of comfort".
>
> The first place after be is the *second* place of the first tanru
> component.

If you say "be fa", it is the first. And it is not pointless to do so if the 
place of the seltau that is connected to the tertau is not the first. For 
instance, {le stika be fa lo nilglare be'o jimte be lo seltonga} means "the 
limit on how much temperature affects frequency".

phma

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