[lojban] Re: use of ko'a

[Invent Yourself <xod@thestonecutters.net>]

On Sat, 19 Jul 2003, Robin Lee Powell wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 07:01:19PM +0300, Robin Turner wrote:
> > When I said "you would only use it", I didn't mean "you can never
> > use it in any other way." Unbound ko'a is grammatical, but
> > stylistically I think it's malglico.
>
> I disagree.
>
>     le mi mamta mamta cu mutce nelci le karce .i ko'a ji'a nelci le
>     ladru
>
> I don't see that anyone's going to have much confusion there, and
> since I presumably intend to deliver a bunch more sentences
> involving le mi mamta mamta, it seems a reasonable thing to do.


This is not the most convincing use of unbound ko'a, for reasons which
have already been discovered.

Suppose we want to introduce a new variable, without claiming existence,
and which lasts longer than da does (gets reset after every bridi, they
say!) but by position, without altering the bridi structure simply to
expose the sumti for goiery?

le mi mamta mamta cu nelci le karce be fi ko'a .i ku'i ko'a ckape .i ko
stidi ma mi




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