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[lojban] Re: Proposal for new cmavo: {vau'u}



{no'i}   {la .ilmen.} said that a new selma'o might not be needed and that {xau / vau'u} could be rolled into selma'o UI; merely a marker saying "the following UI-clause applies to the whole sentence". This would allow {xau / vau'u} to be used even in the middle of a sentence... I don't think it'd be used that way often, but {au cu'i}.

On Sunday, May 10, 2015 at 4:04:48 PM UTC+8, Spheniscine (la zipcpi) wrote:
I think it might be useful to have a new cmavo, {vau'u}, which is in its own selma'o. It would act as a "super famyma'o / super vau"; acting as any number of {vau}s needed to close off a sentence.

Why? Attitudinals, mostly; it'd allow adding attitudinals as an afterthought, attaching it to the entire sentence rather than the last thing in it. {vau} is sufficient for simple sentences (e.g. {do sidju mi vau ui}), but more complex sentences with subclauses at the end may require several {vau}, which just feels wrong. For example

Instead of: {do sidju mi lo nu mi zenba lo ni ricfu vau vau vau ui} 
You can have: {do sidju mi lo nu mi zenba lo ni ricfu vau'u ui}

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