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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