[lojban] Re: lo tumla ne'i lo xamsi

[John E Clifford <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

--- Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 10/3/05, John E Clifford
> <clifford-j@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > > .i tu zo'u lo solji cu gacri
> > >  lo klaji gi'e drudi lo dinju
> >
> > My point is that is totally isolated: it has
> no
> > role in the sentence, a fronting with no
> place
> > indicated.  I understand it but don't see how
> to
> > parse it meaningfully.
> 
> It is the topic of the sentence. The topic
> often is, but need not
> always be, one of the arguments of the main
> selbri.
> 
I find this just a bit weird: what does it
purport to mean.  It is grammatical, apparently,
but unintelligible to a machine translator, I
should think.


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