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Re: [lojban] A bug in the CLL 7.6 example 6.14).

On 23 June 2013 14:29, la arxokuna <gleki.is.my.name@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sunday, June 23, 2013 9:50:14 PM UTC+4, tsani wrote:
If we are to create a bridi relative clause (like e.g. {so'o'oi} in selmaho SEI) it should also incorporates such "comments" as {so'o'oi mi xusra se'u}.


Do you mean that the bridi relative clause should also be copied over, if we were to allocate a SEI for bridi relative clauses? I don't really understand what you're saying here.

I'm not proposing anything. I'm just asking. Should bridi relative clause be copied or not?

I don't *think* that they should be copied, but until we have collected usage of bridi relative clauses, I can't really make up my mind. (Constructing artificial examples isn't the best way to go about this.)

If we allow them to be copied, they how do we go about overwriting them? This same question applies to sumtcita as well, however, so I'm not sure.
 
Oh, and what about {to ... toi} ? They are also not copied, right? Or they are copied but {to'i ... toi} is not copied?


I definitely think that to...toi should *not* be copied. There's no point in restating the contents of the parenthetical remark.

e.g. A: .i lo mi mamta (to ri carmi co jai fanza mi caze'aca vau ta'o toi) cu jdice lo du'u vo'a mi dunda be lo rupnu be li reno jdini
B: ua .i go'i ra'o zo'e ne ku'i li cimu
"A: My mother (she's really been annoying me these days) decided to give me twenty dollars.
B: Ah, mine too (give me money, that is), but thirty-five dollars."

In this case, the to...toi is conveniently not copied, because B doesn't want to state that B's mother has been annoying him/her these days. If B did want to state that, they they could easily add {to lo me mi moi cu simsa vau .oi}. If copying were default, then it would become necessary to explicitly negate the copied parenthetical remark.
 
.i mi'e la tsani mu'o

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