Re: [lojban-beginners] Re: Not needing terminators

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Ian Johnson <blindbravado@gmail.com> wrote:
> To verify that I actually do get this, here's another sentence I wrote today:
> mi nupre lonu lonu do spuda lo preti befi mi kei na'e ba nandu do kei do
> The intention is "I promise you the question(s) I ask will not be
> difficult for you to answer". (This is intentionally somewhat clunky
> so I could make sure I knew what I was doing). I'm pretty sure it
> actually does it right this time.

"na'e ba" means "other than in the future", so it's not what you want there.

You want either "na ba nandu" or "ba na'e nandu".

With "na" you don't need the first "kei", as "na" will force the
closing of the second "lo nu". If you go with "ba na'e nandu", I find
"cu ba na'e nandu" more clear than using "kei".

mu'o mi'e xorxes