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[lojban] LA SUMTI BRIVLA



  Just checking with people who understand the grammar to make sure that the following is correct:

You are allowed to interpose a sumti between the la and name for those cases where the name is a brivla, such as "la mi cribe cu gerku" -> "la cribe pe mi cu gerku" (My Bear is a dog), or "la ba'u lo ponse be  lo gerku kuku pinxe be lo djacu cu taske za'ure'u ku .oi" (The dog owner's  "Water-Drinker" is thirsty again *sigh* )  but not where the name is a cmevla, *la mi crib. cu gerku (*My Shreeb is a dog)

  Would I have that right?  (The permissibility surprised me.  I can readily see how the the latter can't be allowed, because it would agglutinate into "la micrib. cu gerku", and how the first can't be ambiguous, but I was surprised to see it was allowed anyhow, simply because of symmetry reasons)

                      --gejyspa

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