Re: [lojban] GIhA question

[Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
> On Thursday 30 December 2010 16:19:48 Jameson Orndorff wrote:
>> When you say something like {.i mi tavla gi'e citka}, is it safe to
>> assume that you are in fact saying {.i mi tavla zo'e zo'e zo'e gi'e
>> citka zo'e} and NOT where {zo'e}s are shared amongst both bridi? It
>> seems like obviously so, but I want to make sure.
>
> Yes. If you say "mi tavla je citka", then you're talking to what you're
> eating; if you say "mi tavla gi'e citka", you're talking to someone and
> eating something, not implying that they are the same. You can also put a
> sumti between "tavla" and "gi'e". You can identify x3 of "tavla" with x2
> of "citka" by saying "mi tavla je setese citka do lo vanjba".
>
> Pierre
>

  Also, if you DID want to have same unspecified-but-obvious object
that you both talked to and ate, you could say "mi tavla gi'e citka
vau zo'e"
               --gejyspa

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