Re: [lojban] Re: what's a du'u?

[Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com>]

really?  That still doesn't sit right with me.  After looking around I found this in the CLL:

http://www.lojban.org/publications/reference_grammar/chapter7.html#s6

"The cmavo ``go'i'', ``go'a'', and ``go'u'' follow exactly the same rules as ``ri'', ``ra'', and ``ru'', except that they are pro-bridi, and therefore repeat bridi, not sumti --- specifically, main sentence bridi."

If in fact {go'i} only repeats the last selbri and not the entire bridi then I think an errata (singular?) is needed to make this clearer.

It does seem like it could be useful to have a ri/go'i like cmavo for repeating exclusively the previous selbri, but it seems like people use go'i for that a lot of the time anyway.

2009/12/3 Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com> wrote:
> really?  I thought {go'i} repeated the whole bridi.  I remember at one point
> this coming up on IRC and us coming to the conclusion that:
> A:   do klama lo zarci
> B:   go'i fa la djeims
> essentially becomes {do jo'u la djeims klama lo zarci} where we weren't
> really sure whether {jo'u} would be that or {joi}/{je}/what

That's:

A: You go to the market.
B: James does.

mu'o mi'e xorxes


To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org
with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if
you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.