[lojban] Re: ibaubo

[John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>]

Robin Lee Powell scripsit:

> I have no idea what that transforms to exactly; the BPFK hasn't
> gotten that far.  But note that this sort of thing is used all the
> time as ".i ri'a bo" and such.

As CLL says, not all I+tag+bo makes sense, only ones where the argument
of the underlying bridi can be an event.  broda .iri'abo brode means
le nu broda cu rink le nu brode (I may have this backwards), except that
it asserts broda and brode, which the rinka version does not.

Neither bangu nor se bangu can reasonably be an event, so such sentences
are basically false and/or nonsense.

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