[lojban] Re: ibaubo

["Adam D. Lopresto" <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Robin Lee Powell wrote:

> 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" ?

Since the form only seems to make sense with event bai markers, perhaps .i te
bau bo na'e ka'e kancu

> > 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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