Re: Clefting

[lojbab@grebyn.com (Logical Language Group)]

It's not obvious to me that the two sentences with Gork, Mork and Dork
DO mean something different, but that is because they are talking about the
same event doing the attracting.  The new place structure for trina is only
semi-cleft; i.e. the x3 place is a prperty abstract, not an event, but x1
need not be an event.  Thus "la noras. trina mi le ka vo'a melbi".

Still and all, I like the explanation, especially put in the English sentence
terms.  Let me know if it flies, it being much shorter than what I've ever
written on the subject.

Preparing an FAQ list might be a g{ood idea, but that's the only question
I know of that qualifies.

By the way, the rafsi tuning has given your first demonstrable impact on the
language.  BY dint of your using it in final position one or twice, "xelso"
has stolen "xle" away from "naxle", which may never have been lujvo-ized yet.
(though it was used as one of the words in reno preti last year).