[lojban] Re: another sentence to try the parser on

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

On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 08:52:13PM -0500, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> On Sunday 28 March 2004 14:10, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > > I can't see what this genstura is good for, except to translate
> > > the King's remarks at the beginning of the chapter.
> >
> > It's actually just a side effect of being able to use 'naku' in
> > general.
> 
> {naku} can also be the object of a preposition or a tense marker,
> which likewise makes no sense:
> 
> mi viska sera'a naku le gerku .i canaku mi klama le zarci

I would read that as "zi'o", myself.

> {le gerku be naku cu klama le panka} is also grammatical, but it
> should be, since {le gerku be naku} is just {gerku naku} turned into a
> sumti.

What does "gerku naku" mean then?  I can't remember.

-Robin

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