Re: [lojban] cmevla as a class of brivla

[John E Clifford <kali9putra@yahoo.com>]

Note that, at the best of times, your suggestion always puts in {zi'o}, which is usually just wrong (although not terribly damaging).  You probably mean {a} or, better, {onai}.  But the point is that you don't get a choice; you have to have an automatic procedure for putting something in, and (unless the procedure is much more complicated) the same thing each time.

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From: Ian Johnson <blindbravado@gmail.com>
To: lojban@googlegroups.com
Sent: Monday, June 10, 2013 2:44 AM
Subject: Re: [lojban] cmevla as a class of brivla

On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 10:47 PM, John E Clifford <kali9putra@yahoo.com> wrote:

Yes, that is what {zi'o} does  -- when it is overtly given.  But it cannot be slipped in after the utterance to clean up the mess and that is the case at hand.

If you adopt the convention that I mentioned earlier where empty places are understood as {zi'o .u zo'e}, it's not even "slipped in", it's just there in the first place.

mi'e la latro'a mu'o 

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