[lojban] Re: nei

[Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com>]

Ahh, yes, good point.  That's what I was going for.  I feel like a good poem/limerick in which the punch-line (last line) of the poem involved {nei}/{no'a} creating a kind of linguistic version of "the song that never ends" where the punchline is itself a repetition of the setup followed by the punchline which is itself....

 - Luke Bergen

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Adam D. Lopresto <adam@pubcrawler.org> wrote:

On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, Luke Bergen wrote:

so I just stumbled across "nei" in my readings.  It seems like some
fun mischief can be had here...

mi nelci lo te cizra be fa nei

Or does "nei" not include "nei" in the repeated bridi?

{nei} includes itself, that part is just fine.  But there are a few weird
things with your sentence.

{nei} is not a sumti; it is a selbri.  So you'd probably want {lo su'u nei}
(or {du'u}, {nu}, or whatever other abstraction you want there).  And

The other issue is that your {fa} is filling the x1 of {te cizra}, which is
the x3 of {cirza}.  I strongly suspect that what you actually wanted was {lo
te cizra be fi lo su'u nei}, the property in which the entire bridi is
strange.

Actually, once {nei} is embedded in the {su'u}, it may only refer to that
bridi; you may need {no'a} to get to the main bridi.

mi nelci lo te cizra be fi lo su'u no'a
--
Adam Lopresto
http://cec.wustl.edu/~adam/

dei se du'u no'a

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