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Re: [lojban] {kai'i}



Invent Yourself scripsit:

> Are you stating that ce'u can be elided because it's always assumed to be
> in the first empty place? The Book examples indicate otherwise, unless I
> am mistaken.

No, it can be elided because people are capable of glorking its presence
from context, like any other elision.  There is no requirement that the
elision be from the x1 place.

> What is there is sufficiently contradictory that I have agreed with And
> Rosta's argument that ce'u should always be used with ka. Then ka becomes
> redundant, except where the kam- rafsi is used.

Redundancy is a Good Thing.

-- 
John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore
	--Douglas Hofstadter