On Sunday, September 28, 2014 11:17:43 PM UTC-4, la durka wrote:
The reason for making it that way (the term "scope leaper" has been used) was precisely to provide a way to escape the normal left-to-right scoping rule, to make certain things easier to express without rearranging the entire sentence structure. A similar proposed bridi modifier (xoi as currently defined in jbovlaste) is right-scoping like tags.
la selpa'i has some discussion in the second half of
this post.
Thank you, so much. THAT is an explanation. I finally understand {voi}.
So, where as {poi} is an "identifier", narrowing down the possible identity of the referent, {voi} is a "qualifier". It doesn't restrict the identity, but selects the quality of the referent that makes it pertinent. Another translations besides simply "as" might be "in so far as".