Re: [lojban] proportions

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Wednesday 31 August 2011 10:13:44 John E. Clifford wrote:
> Well, it was an assumption, brought on by everybody using the long forms
> rather than the short -- and my recollection that things like 'va' and 'ca'
> no longer seem to go in the slot after 'lo'. I'll be happy to find it is
> not gone.

There's nothing wrong with "lo va broda", "lo ca broda", "lo mi broda", or 
even "lo mi va broda". If "va" is tagging something as a preposition, though, 
it can't go between "lo" and "broda". You have to say "lo broda be va lo 
mitre".

Pierre
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