Re: [lojban] ma krinu lonu lo jbopre na tavla fo la.lojban. ne'i levi snustu | Why aren't we speaking in Lojban in here?

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Tuesday 21 September 2010 11:57:57 Michael Turniansky wrote:
>   I use constructions like "setese" for three reasons -- 1) when I'm
> translating and trying to mimic the word order of the velfanva 2) When
> I'm trying to emphasize one sumti over another (it's paradigmatic that
> earlier sumti places seem to be perceived as "more important" than
> later ones), and/or 3) If I have a complex sumti, I'd rather throw it
> at the end of the sentence rather than have to put a whole bunch of
> terminators so that you can "pop up" a half dozen levels and have to
> remember "what was the main selbri again?  Oh, yeah..." before getting
> to the next sumti.  That's a lot of processing power to ask of a human
> listener/reader.  (I tend to write lojban like I speak English -- with
> lots of subrodinate cruft)

I'd do all this with combinations of SE and FA. When I would use "setese" is 
when I'm joining two selbri with a conjunction and the place structures don't 
match, so argument 2 of one selbri is argument 3 of the other, and vice 
versa.

Pierre
-- 
li fi'u vu'u fi'u fi'u du li pa

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