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Re: ge'e as attitudinal separator
--- In lojban@y..., thinkit8@l... wrote:
> on page 312 of the codex woldemar, it notes how
>
> "mi pu tavla do .o'onai .oi" can either mean that the .oi modifies
> the .o'onai (damn, i snapped at you), or they independently modify
> the do (i told you, you pest!). what about using ge'e to resolve
the
> ambiguity. thus the first case is still do ".o'onai .oi", but the
> second case is "do .o'onai ge'e .oi". it's even hinted about on
page
> 311. what do you think? i haven't found anything about this on
the
> wiki.
wait, i think i can explain this better. if you look at the
attitudes as a heirarchy, then ge'e serves to go up one level. any
other word advances a level and serves to modify the previous word.
thus you have:
do
*u'i
**oi
(ge'e)
**iu