Re: [lojban] Please, the best explanation of {le} vs. {lo}

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

Thanks, {la'u} "of some amount" does work better.  Still uncomfortable about the construction, adding a place but not filling it, I would have thought adverbial tanru were more apprpriate.

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On Jun 22, 2013, at 19:45, Pierre Abbat <phma@bezitopo.org> wrote:

> On Saturday, June 22, 2013 10:05:51 John E Clifford wrote:
>> Not sure what {tai} does here, no NP after it. (I pass over {ci'omle},
>> you're entitle to make your compounds mean whatever you want them to.)
> 
> I think the correct preposition is "la'u", not "tai". "tai" is what I used in 
> ".i ca'o le nu casnu tai kei", for "pendant qu'ainsi l'on délibère".
> 
> On Saturday, June 22, 2013 13:18:01 Jonathan Jones wrote:
>> On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 7:06 AM, selpa'i <seladwa@gmx.de> wrote:
>>> {blabi} *is* a verb, as is every Lojban predicate.
>> 
>> Selbri are *not* verbs.
> 
> Cross-linguistically, verbs are words that take arguments (sumti). There is 
> not, as far as I know, any natlang which has an indefinitely long sequence of 
> numbered places, but all natlangs, as far as I know, and Lojban have words 
> which take arguments, some of which can be tagged by an adposition. So a 
> brivla is a verb.
> 
> Pierre
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