On Thursday, September 4, 2014 2:26:15 PM UTC-4, la gleki wrote:Did you see the phrase {lo melbi cmalu nixli ckule}?It means in a "pretty way small girls' school". This is a clear case of string modifiers one after another.Yes, but I must be missing your point. If it were right grouped by default it would mean: (pretty (small (girls' school))). Which make sense, though it's unlikely the speaker meant the school was pretty --but that's the meaning. On the other hand left grouping means: (((pretty small) girls') school). Which is almost nonsensical --what's a pretty type-of small?
In right grouping it'd be the same. Lojban uses {co} to change the direction:{lo ckule co nixli co cmalu co melbi}How does this get grouped?
For previous examples:{lo karce co barda je xunre}.As you can see you still cannot delete {je}.One might imagine a language where {je} would be omitted, however, I wonder why {je}, not {jo'u} or {joi} would be chosen for that.Hmm.. maybe the confusion is that I don't mean putting the "adjective" after the word it modifies. I just mean applying the tenru to the right first.
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