Subject: Re: [lojban] go'i: repeated referents or just sumti?

From: Logical Language Group <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 20:48:34 -0500

At 11:07 PM 2/26/02 +0000, Jorge Llambias wrote:
>la tanatos cusku di'e
>
> >The gimste definiton of {sumti} says that lo sumti is text, so if you're
> >speaking in Lojban about sumti you have to quote words.
>
>So it does, you're right. The place structure does not make
>much sense then, because the form "le mlatu" is a sumti form
>irrespective of any selbri,

Throughout the gismu list, I made the assumption that idealized "forms" 
would be a lujvo probably using tarmi. The place structure assumes that 
something is a sumti if it is an argument of a predication, not merely if 
it is of the form of such an argument.

lojbab
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