Subject: Re: [lojban] Reading lojban textbook

From: And Rosta <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 15:30:07 +0100

>>> Jay Kominek <[email-masked]> 10/02/01 06:10pm >>>
#On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Alex Gontmakher wrote:
#> In Lesson 04:
#>
#> .i ma cu sumti zo klama
#>
#> shouldn't it be:
#>
#> .i zo klama sumti ma
#
#Without looking at the context, I can tell you that the word "klama" isn't
#a sumti, so "zo klama sumti" is going to be wrong.
#
#"klama" is however, a brivla, so "sumti zo klama" makes sense.

I see nothing wrong with "zo klama sumti ma": although "klama"
is not a valid sumti, "zo klama" is. It might, for example be a sumti
of brivla "melbi", say.

"ma cu sumti zo klama" is also okay, though. "What is sumti of the
predicate-word 'klama' [e.g. in the sentence "la djan klama"]?"
Answer = "lu la djan li'u" (or whatever the appropriate quote cmavo
are).

--And.