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Re: [lojban] slasi je mlatu bo cidja lante gacri

.i la .pier. cu cusku di'e

This phrase occurs in http://dag.github.com/cll/7/5/. I think it means a cover
for a can containing something which is both plastic and cat food, which got
me laughing. (Actually I thought of a plastic cat, before I saw "bo".) I think
it's supposed to mean a plastic cover for a can of cat food. Would that be
"mlatu cidja lante ke slasi gacri"?
Your tanru works, but the original one is also correct. Tanru connectives don't remove the vagueness from tanru, so "slasi je mlatu bo cidja lante gacri" has two interpretations:
1) A cover for a can that contains something which is both plastic and cat food. (your interpretation) 

2) A plastic cover for a can of cat food.
You get the second meaning by refactoring the tanru without the tanru connective: 

(1a) slasi je mlatu bo cidja lante gacri

(1b) slasi lante gacri .i je mlatu cidja lante gacri

Here it is clear that we are dealing with two seperate tanru.

Or, if you like, using "ke ... ke'e":

(1c) ke slasi lante gacri ke'e je ke mlatu cidja lante gacri ke'e
If you place each "ke ... ke'e" part right under each other, you can see that they overlap to a certain point, and the rest that does not overlap gets a "je" to abbreviate it. 

        ke       [slasi] lante gacri ke'e je
        ke [mlatu cidja] lante gacri ke'e

[slasi] je [mlatu cidja] lante gacri
So as you can see, the original tanru gives us multiple readings, at least one of which does make sense. 

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