Am 02.07.2012 16:19, schrieb Michael Turniansky:
I use it like "ra" but referring to multiple sumti. I haven't seen this word used much, if at all, so I don't know how other people use it. I do think, however, that (if understood to work like ra) it is apparent that it refers to lung and liver, because the cook is unlikely to cook the queen and himself. :)
"ni'o lo kalte ca lo nu lo xarju panzi cu jbikla cu daktuncatra gi'e lebna lo fepri .e lo livga gi'e bevri fi'o sinxa ku fi lo noltruni'u .i lo jukpa cu .ei silnyjau jukpa xai"
Now, I'm not an expert on the grammar of experimental camvo like "xai", and obviously you intend the referent to be lo fepri jo'u lo livga, but couldn't it also be lo noltruni'u jo'u lo jukpa? Is "xai" like "ra", vague? Or is it like "ri" and strictly referring to the most recent n>2 sumti?
If xai is supposed to refer to the last <1 sumti immediately preceeding it, then another cmavo would be useful to have that behaves the way I used xai in the story (maybe xau). Let's hear what its inventor (Pierre, I believe) thinks about it.