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Re: [lojban] hope



At 03:13 PM 06/15/2001 -0400, pycyn@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 6/15/2001 1:46:10 PM Central Daylight Time,
rob@twcny.rr.com writes:
> .a'o mi klama  .i
> mi .a'o klama  .i
> mi klama .a'o  .i
>
> .a'o du'u mi klama

To be really picky, "a'o" applies to the entire text there (because it
occurred
at the beginning of the text) and the other ones are redundant. There would
need to be a .i before the first .a'o.

Well, to be really really picky (not the best thing to do with a poet, by the
way) an initial {.i} would be improper, since there is no preceding sentence
({.i} does not begin a sentence, it continues a discourse).

Except that .i is legal at the beginning of a discourse (we built it into the grammar). Partly because some discourses are implicit continuations of others, and partly because it resolved some scope issues like this one.

lojbab
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