[lojban] Re: grammar oddity challenge

[Jorge "Llambías" <jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar>]

--- Rob Speer <rspeer@MIT.EDU> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 02:00:04PM -0800, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> > 
> > Find a brivla which can appear ONLY at the beginning of a text.
> 
> Does "bu zei broda" work?

{bu zei broda} can be used anywhere, because zei acts before bu,
but you were close. The answer I had in mind was any brivla of 
the form {zei zei <any-word>}.

For example:
 
    zei zei lujvo fa lo selbri be di'u
    The selbri of this sentence is a zei-lujvo.

But if we try to put something in front of the brivla 
{zei zei lujvo}, we get:

    lo selbri be di'u zei zei lujvo

which tries to attach the brivla {di'u zei zei} with be,
or:

    lo selbri be di'u cu zei zei lujvo
    The selbri of this sentence type of cu-zei type of lujvo.

which is just a sumti.

There is a way to cheat, however:

    lo selbri be di'u cu zo zei zei lujvo
    The selbri of this sentence is a "zei"-lujvo

which works because {zo} acts before {zei}.

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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