Re: [lojban] Can you do that?! seri'agi

[Jameson Orndorff <jtorndorff@gmail.com>]

http://jbotcan.org/cllc/c9/s8.html is the relevant CLL section. As I
understand it, you can TAG gi ... gi or JOI gi ... gi any construct
you could use within a GA ... gi construct - so basically, you could
pair sumti, or selbri, or bridi in this way. In some ways, you can
think of it as a forethought version of {.i TAG bo}.

Right from the CLL:

mi mu'i gi viska le cukta gi lebna le cukta

I, motivated by seeing the book, took the book.

Here, we're separating two bridi-tails.

This can be shortened, however, to:

mi mu'i gi viska gi lebna vau le cukta

Elegant, isn't it? I just learned about this yesterday as well.

An example that cropped up on IRC, from vensa:

va'o gi mi troci lo nu kakne lo vajni poi cinri mi gi mi gleki

If you are starting with a tag and would like to comfortably be able
to return to base-level without {cu}, this can act like that. TAG gi
... state a complex bridi which might require obscene amounts of
terminators, gi, and then your main bridi - no {cu} required!

mi'e .kribacr. mu'o

On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com> wrote:
> I was just perusing the lojban wiki page and found this example:
> seri'agi mi jgari lei djacu gi mi jgari le kabri
> With-physical-effect I grasp the-mass-of water, I grasp the cup.
> I grasp water, since I grasp the cup.
> I didn't know you could just do: TAG+gi broda gi brode.  That's awesome.
>  Although, I have to admit, I really am not at all sure about what is going
> on here.
> So is {baugi la lojban gi mi tavla} the same thing as {mi tavla bau la
> lojban}?  But wait... it's like the second {gi} is linking two bridi, so
> would it have to be {baugi jbobau gi mi tavla}?
> So is {mi nelci do mu'i lo nu do nelci mi} = {mu'igi do nelci mi gi mi nelci
> do}?
> Also, I'm suspicious about whether the original author wanted {seri'agi} or
> {ri'agi}.
> mi'e cribe
>
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