Re: [lojban] zo kuktce pei

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 10:50:19AM -0400, Stela Selckiku wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 8:20 PM, Robin Lee Powell
> <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> >
> > .oi do na jmini zo kuktce la jbovlaste .i ji'a do na ciska le te
> > sumti stura .oi sai .i se ki'u bo mi na jinvi .i lo lojbo valsi
> > smuni cu se nibli ro lo te sumti
> 
> .i vi'o jatna mi pu zi jmina .i .u'u mi sruma lo du'u frili fa lo
> nu smadi .i .ai sampu valsi 

mi na nelci lo nu smadi .i zo mutce cu ci mei se sumti .i na sampu
.i zo gasnu cu pa mei se sumti gi'e sampu .i mi .i'e ka'e smadi se
ra'a zo gasnu .e nai lo drata lujvo pagbu

> .i di'e smuni zo kuktce mi .i xy xi pa mutce lo ka ce'u kukte xy
> xi re .i ro le drata te gismu cu se citka pe'a

ju'o sai mi na ka'e smadi

> > Sorry, this is too meta-linguisting: I have real trouble saying
> > things like that.  Specifically, discussing place structures,
> > and sumti slots in theory (rather than actual concrete sumti
> > use).  What do people think of what I did there?  Is there a
> > better way?
> 
> I didn't think twice about it until you asked, but it is an odd
> use of {nibli}.  

It wasn't the nibli I was worried about.  :)

> I think maybe you meant to say that not the tergi'u themselves but
> their meanings are logically related to the meaning of the whole.

Fair.

> Someday we'll have lots of specific Lojbanic grammar terminology
> and we'll get used to it and we'll start saying that it's hard to
> discuss Lojban's grammar in English.

.a'o sai

-Robin

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