Re: [lojban] Extensibility of vocatives (do'a non-selbri)

[Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com>]

or more tersely: {.a'o zansipna}

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com> wrote:

 That would mean, "bye, Good Sleeper".  Perhaps what you really want
to say is the longer "a'o do zanfri lo nicte"
              --gejyspa

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 12:32 AM, Ian Johnson <blindbravado@gmail.com> wrote:
> {nicte ze'ei co'o} doesn't even really make sense if you ignore English; it
> means "night", the predicate, but has the grammar of selma'o COI. That is,
> the semantics of the second word are completely ignored, only its grammar is
> significant.
>
> Personally I'd just say {co'o xamgu sipna} or something, I think.
>
> mu'o mi'e .latros.
>
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 4:42 AM, .arpis. <rpglover64+jbobau@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> It all started with the simple question of someone asking me if {nicte
>> xamgu} was a valid translation of "Good night."
>>
>> Sometimes, going off the deep end is fun.
>>
>> I recognize (or at least understand it to be the case) that selbri are as
>> extensible as I could possibly want them.
>>
>> Since selbri can be converted into sumti, sumti are also as extensible as
>> I could want.
>>
>> Is there a way that I can express a vocative which is a night parting?  A
>> water parting?  A death parting?
>>
>> Is {ze'ei} the accepted way to do this, and are {nicte ze'ei co'o}, etc.
>> valid uses?
>>
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