Re: [lojban] lenu makfa prami

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 5:57 AM, Remo Dentato <rdentato@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 4:44 AM, Stela Selckiku <selckiku@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2010/10/18 Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>:
>>>
>>> So what is the pattern? What's the place structure of "rolnicte"?
>>
>> Hmm, I guess "x1 is every night at location x2".
>
> My idea was that {roldonri} is "x1 is every day (in the daytime)",
> {rolvenci} is "x1 is every evening" and {rolnicte} is "x1 is every
> night".

If "lo rolnicte" is all nights together, then "ca lo rolnicte" doen't
seem to be something repeated every night. I can't get from "ca ro lo
nicte" to "ca lo rolnicte".

> I understand that this is the most contentious point. What if I put
> {ca ro donri} to say "every night"? Would that be ok for all?

That would work for me. I don't know what the original says, but from
the context I would have expected a simple "ca lo nicte" ("at night"),
since she seems to be talking about all the things she habitually
does. None of the other things are explicitly quantified, so I
wouldn't quantify the day/evening/night three either.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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