[lojban] Re: cfari

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

On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 03:25:13PM -0500, John Cowan wrote:
> Robin Lee Powell scripsit:
> 
> > Those of you without time/ability to read the Lojban might might
> > the topic interesting: xorxes was pointing out four places where
> > I used a COI cmavo as though it was UI (i.e., without following
> > it with a name).  xorxes expressed his desire for COI cmavo to
> > actually grammatically be like UI cmavo (which I'm inclined to
> > agree with).
> 
> Well, UI binds to the previous word.  Is that what you were doing?

Nope.

> It's certainly grammatical to have COI by itself now, although you
> need an explicit "do'u" if the next thing is a name or sumti.

That was the issue.

".i fi'isai mi gleki le nu do cilre la .lojban."

Doesn't meant what I wanted it to mean.

What about "je'e pe'u mi broda"?  Does the je'e grab anything?

-Robin

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