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Re: [lojban] [oz] Use of elidable {cu}




On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 8:22 PM, selpa'i <seladwa@gmx.de> wrote:

   lo nu broda pu cinri
   ! "The event of brodaing in the past is interesting."

Actually it's even worse than that, it's just a sumti: "the brodaing in the past type of interesting thing." 

Using {cu} before {pu} is necessary there to prevent the accidental slipping of the {pu} into the abstraction. So maybe that's one reason to use {cu} even when it's not necessary: to be less likely to forget it where it must be used.

Yes, it's a good idea not to rely on tenses to do the job of "cu", as they can't always do it.

mu'o mi'e xorxes
 

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