Re: [lojban] sei

[selpa'i <seladwa@gmx.de>]

la Michael Everson cu cusku di'e
> When a metalinguistic aside is begun with "sei", how do you know when it ends?

A {sei} phrase automatically ends once it sees a selbri, but it also has 
a terminator {se'u}. The benefit of this restriction is that {se'u} is 
almost never needed, unless you have to prevent a tanru and can't use 
any other means to prevent it.

The general syntax of a {sei}-clause is:

sei [any number of terms] [selbri] se'u

If you want to add sumti after the selbri, you can still do so using 
{be}, since {broda be ko'a [be'o]} is still just a selbri.

mu'o mi'e la selpa'i

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