[lojban] Re: Opinions, please: SA by structure

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

On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 12:20:20PM +0100, Philip Newton wrote:
> One question -- what would {mi vecnu do lo cukta sa lo cukta do}
> mean? The same as {mi vecnu lo cukta do} ("I'm selling you to the
> books, uh, the books to you") or as {mi vecnu do lu cukta do}
> ("I'm selling you to the books, uh, to the books for the cost of
> yourself")?

The latter.

> If the latter, how to get the result of the former? Would I have to
> erase back to the brivla and go {mi vecnu do lo cukta sa vecnu lo
> cukta do}? 

Correct.

You could also (probably; we haven't hashed this out yet) do {mi
vecnu do lo cukta sa da sa lo cukta do}, effictively counting back
two terms, but I don't actually expect anyone to do this.  "da" was
used as "any term" there.

> (Which would currently mean, apparently, {mi vecnu do lo vecnu lo
> cukta do} or "I'm selling you to the books, uh, salesman for the
> price of books" with a leftover "do" for x5 of vecnu.)

Correct.

-Robin

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