[lojban] Re: be, bei?

[Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:48 PM, Chris Capel<pdf23ds@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 21:28, Michael Turniansky<mturniansky@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:23 PM, Chris Capel<pdf23ds@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Why is bei grammatically necessary? Why not make {broda lo brode be la
>>> alis. la djan be'o} legal?
>>
>>   Well, I guess you could, but then be'o would basically never be
>> elidable except at the end of an utterance
>
> Ahh, I see. And as it is, be'o is almost always elidable, right?
>

  Right, unless the last thing in the list is a brivla that's followed
(out of the be-be'o) by a brivla.   And since many many times you will
only be linking a single item, it makes more sense to let be'o be
elidable since you won't often need that bei anyhow (not because of
eliability, but because you're not often linking up that many sumti

             --gejyspa


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