[lojban] Re: [Anecdote #6] xabyterspe

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

On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 11:28:07PM +0700, Yanis Batura wrote:
> On 07.07.2006, 23:06, Gabriel Ebner wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 10:34:04PM +0700, Yanis Batura wrote:
> >> B: na cumki .i ro prenu zo'u gonai terspe panzi gi nalterspe
> >> panzi
> 
> > You have to leave out the {zo'u} here, or you'd have to write
> > {ro da poi prenu zo'u da co'e}
> 
> {ro prenu zo'u ...} is perfectly grammatical, and I don't see any
> reasons why adhere to strict logics in everyday speech. {ro broda
> zo'u brode} is a natural reduction of longer {ro da poi broda zo'u
> da brode}.

More to the point, {ro prenu} is *exactly* equivalent to {ro da poi
prenu}.  Welcome to a predicate logic based language; enjoy your
visit.

-Robin

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