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Re: [lojban] su'u
la djan cusku di'e
It is not illegal because it is unambiguous, it is illegal
because it makes no sense to abstract a sumti.
I could very easily make sense of it if it were legal.
For example:
mi pu kucli le du'u makau klama ije ko'a jungau mi le du'u la djan
Notice that I am not saying that that makes sense in Lojban
as is, only that it would be very easy to make sense of it
if it were legal.
What can be abstracted
is a bridi, and a bridi must (syntactically) contain a selbri, at
least the maximally-vague selbri "co'e".
Right, for syntactic reasons. Semantically, {co'e} could be
understood in subclauses just as it can be in the main bridi.
A single sumti as a bridi is as meaningful/meaningless as
it would be in a sub-clause, and yet it is legal.
co'o mi'e xorxes
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