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[lojban] Re: Missing out obvious words



On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 3:31 AM, Christopher Done
<chrisdone@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> So proceeding with the knowledge that many bridi-less answers are allowed,
> presumably because they are so obvious, it seems an interesting idea that
> questions can be bridi-less, when obvious, as above.

I would call such fragmentary sentences "implicit-selbri", rather than
"bridi-less". They can always be completed with "co'e" to get a
formally complete bridi.

> I haven't discovered anything in the CLL about bridi-less questions, this is
> why I'm asking here.
>
> Thoughts?

As long as they are understood, I don't see any problem with them.

A truly bridi-less question is something like "ui pei".

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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