Re: response on Peek-A-Boo game - old

[Chris A Bogart <cbogart@INDRA.COM>]

On Tue, 19 Aug 1997, Logical Language Group wrote:
> I would be going for the simplest wordings possible to convet the meaning.
> We want to be grammatically correct, but ellipsis and other short cuts are
> fine.

Plus, if you're a politically correct lojbanist
who doesn't want the child's lojban to have too much of
a malglico feel to it, you could
occasionally include simple but nalglico word orderings:

> >PB03  I see you!
> >        .ui mi viska do
>
> The mi is probably redundant:
> .ui viska do

Good example.  Or also, .ui mi do viska

> la. erin. vi ma
> la. erin. zvati ma

la .erin. ma zvati

> strive for, maybe with use of za'a, ti'e, and maybe in some cases ba'a
> on an otherwise bare predicate (or maybe a "me la" or "me le".)

.ie zabna

co'o mi'e kris