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Re: Bible translation
--- In lojban@y..., "Jorge Llambias" <jjllambias@h...> wrote:
> >2) Termsets are awkward for "gapping" (when the selbri of the
second
> >sentence is implicitly that of the first). With termsets, the terms
have
> >to be next to each other (with no intervening selbri), and they
also add
> >extra cmavo. I believe it used to be grammatical to put a bare list
of
> >sumti after "ije", which would be a much easier and more natural
way to
> >specify gapping.
>
> You're right, it seems that it is no longer grammatical!
> You can still do it without {je}:
>
> i le moklu be mi le nunmi'a cu se culno i le tance be mi
> le geirselsanga
>
> but it is strange that you can't do it with {ije}.
>
It seems it came about when the scope of "ije" was reduced to allow a
prenex to cover an entire conjunction of 2 complete bridi, but I'm
still not sure why it can't have a list of terms.
co'o mi'e adam