Re: [lojban] cu-alike for other situations

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

On Sunday 31 October 2010 13:31:17 Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> Something that I and some others have talked about on IRC a few
> times is "Wow, cu is pretty useful when deeply nested; wouldn't it
> be nice to have something like that that could work in other places
> besides before the selbri?".
>
> This turns out to be surprisingly tricky; many ideas have been shown
> to be unworkable.
>
> I think I might finally have something: mark FA as needing
> terminator closure before it.  Example:
>
> mi denpa le nu do xruti fi le nu zutse
>
> vs.
>
> mi denpa le nu do xruti cu fi le nu zutse
>
> "cu fi" means "close terminators, at least one, until a fi is
> allowed".  More than one cu would be allowed there, with the obvious
> effect.
>
> Please note that I am NOT attached to "cu" here; a postfix new cmavo
> (i.e. "fi xu'u"), or whatever, would be fine.  (IIRC postfix is
> easier in terms of grammatical simplicity, but it's been a while).

I don't think "cu" should be used like this. As currently defined, "cu" is the 
predicate marker, and is very similar to "i" in Tok Pisin, which I learned 
before Lojban. Using "cu" to mark that "fi" closes terminators is too weird 
to me. If you can make some other cmavo work with "fi", I might be in favor 
of it.

Pierre

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