[lojban] A use for {pe naku} ?

[Jacob Errington <nictytan@gmail.com>]

This occurred to me in IRC just a few days ago, and I figured that I should inform the broader community of this "discovery". Until now, {pe naku} has been regarded as gibberish, and has been used essentially only in pointing out weird stuff that can be done with the grammar. However, I've figured out a practical use for it.

Consider the following:

{.i mi se gunta re lo gerku .i pa lo gerku cu bunre .ije lo drata naku go'i .i lo gerku pe naku cu simlu lo ka xendo zmadu lo gerku pe ja'aku}

We can use {pe naku} and also {pe ja'aku} to create a disambiguation between things based on whether or not they have a contextually relevant property, in this case {ka bunre}.

What do you think of this? 

mu'o mi'e la tsani

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