[lojban] VAU CEI

[Ian Johnson <blindbravado@gmail.com>]

{cei} is sorta hard to use. You have to realize that you're going to hold basically your entire bridi (unless you override the sumti later) in a variable, and you have to do that right as you say the selbri, or the grammatical opportunity goes away. In some sense the way {cei} works now is like a forethought connective. I'm proposing that it have an afterthought counterpart; that is, that VAU CEI become grammatical, and that it do pretty much what you expect: 
ko'a broda ko'e ko'i vau cei brode == ko'a broda cei brode ko'e ko'i. 

To some extent you can work around this already, like:
ko'a broda ko'e ko'i .i go'i cei broda .i ko'o broda ...

But it does not allow you to do an equivalent of:
.i lo nu ko'a broda ko'e ko'i vau cei brode cu brodi .i ko'o brode ...

In principle I suppose this could be a cmavo unto itself, but I don't really see why.

Any thoughts?

mu'o mi'e .latros.

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