[lojban] Re: New to Lojban and a question

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

On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 11:40:38AM -0300, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> On 12/29/05, Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 03:29:51PM -0300, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> > > ({satci} might also be related, but it has a somewhat odd
> > > place structure.)
> >
> > Yes, I find {satci} quite confusing, but let me try:
> >
> > ko zengau le do pu ve skicu lo ka satci ?? ??
> >
> > No idea what in the x2 and x3.  I guess "lo se djica be mi" and
> > "lo ka tcila" ??  Very odd place structure.
> 
> But then I would ask you {ko zengau lo se djica be do lo ka satci
> lo se djica be mi} and we risk getting into an infinite loop. :)

Yes, exactly.

> The x3 of {satci} makes perfect sense to me, it follows the usual
> lojbanic pattern "x1 is XXXXX in property/aspect x2" found in lots
> of other words. But the x2 is a mystery, and the worse part is
> that it gets in the way of the x3, so it can't be easily ignored.

Yup.

-Robin

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