Re: [lojban] VAU CEI

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 1:12 AM, Ian Johnson <blindbravado@gmail.com> wrote:
> {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.

"cei" assigns a selbri, not a whole bridi. It is only a matter of
context that if you don't explicitely fill the arguments of the
assigned "broda", the obvious values will tend to be those used in the
bridi where you made the assignment.

> 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.

That could be added to the grammar, but what you are assigning to
brode is "broda" (assuming "broda" already has a value).

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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