[lojban] Re: ibaubo

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

On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 11:44:01PM +0100, Zefram wrote:
> Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> >"the storryteller can't count" isn't a language.  I might generously
> >accept it as a description of a (class of) language(s), but that
> >seems an odd usage.
> 
> One could perhaps say {bau lo kancu na kakne}, "in language: something
> that is unable to count".  That looks more reasonable to me, though
> there is still the issue of whether a language can count at all.  

Right.  Why not use ".i se bau bo" ?

> Does "ibaubo" do what I think it does?  It looks to me like it turns
> the entire following sentence, up to "i", into the argument of a "bau"
> clause attached to the previous sentence.  

Correct.

> I didn't realise one could do that with "bau".

You can do it with any BAI.

-Robin

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