On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com> wrote:Didn't you read the following sentence? It was something like "to .ei
> A little while back I saw xorxes say:
> {lo prije lo bebna cu simsa lo ka ro roi tolcri ge lo se junri lo se xalbo
> gi lo se xalbo lo se junri}.
> I thought this usage of ge gi to get reciprocity was really cool but for
> some reason it seems like jboski doesn't like it. xorxes, is this a bug in
> your (beautiful) bridi or in jboski?
zo nu'i mrobi'o toi"
jboski will probably be happy with: "lo prije lo bebna cu simsa lo ka
ro roi tolcri nu'i ge lo se junri lo se xalbo gi lo se xalbo lo se
junri".
There's no terminator. You just have to have the same number of terms
> Followup question which assumes that this is fine and jboski is confused.
> How would I express the next sumti after the ge... gi... for example, if I
> want to say {broda ge lo brode lo brodi gi lo brodi lo brode <what
> terminator> [fo] brodi} where {brodi} fills the fourth place, how do I stop
> it from getting sucked up into the {gi}.
for each conjunct. The next term will not be a part of the conjunct.
(Or, the terminator is "nu'u" if you used "nu'i".)
Only the latter.
> Also, if I want the reciprocal sumti to be x1 and x2 would I say {broda fa
> ge lo brode lo brodi gi lo brodi lo brode} or {broda ge fa lo brode lo brodi
> gi fa lo brodi lo brode}? Or are either acceptable?
mu'o mi'e xorxes
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