Re: [lojban] la .alis.

[Jonathan Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com>]

2010/3/30 Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Jonathan Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> {.i} begins a new sentence, not ends an old one, I know this.

Strictly speaking, from a syntactic point of view, it separates two sentences.

(1)  broda .i brode
(2)  .i broda .i brode
(3)  broda .i brode .i
(4)  .i broda .i brode .i

All four are grammatically correct. (1) is the normal use, since the
others contain unnecessary separators.

> {vau} is actually the Lojban word for the English period,

"vau" terminates a bridi-tail, but not necessarily a whole sentence.
In this sentence:

  ko'a broda ko'e ko'i (vau) gi'e brode ko'o vau ko'u

The first "vau" can be elided, and terminates the (broda ko'e ko'i)
bridi-tail. The second "vau" is not elidable, it terminates the (brode
ko'o vau) bridi-tail, and allows the following term, "ko'u" to be
shared by the two connected bridi, just like the initial term "ko'a".

mu'o mi'e xorxes

 

Arg. Jorge, getting all technical. I was being overly-simplistic, I apologize.

 

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