From Philip.Newton@datenrevision.de Fri Jun 14 06:18:13 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: Philip.Newton@datenrevision.de X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_3_2); 14 Jun 2002 13:18:13 -0000 Received: (qmail 91067 invoked from network); 14 Jun 2002 13:18:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m14.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 14 Jun 2002 13:18:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO n18.grp.scd.yahoo.com) (66.218.66.73) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 14 Jun 2002 13:18:13 -0000 Received: from [66.218.67.145] by n18.grp.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 14 Jun 2002 13:18:12 -0000 Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 13:18:11 -0000 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Correct terminator(s)? Message-ID: User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Length: 1253 X-Mailer: Yahoo Groups Message Poster From: "elder_newton" X-Originating-IP: 62.246.108.98 X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=23036112 X-Yahoo-Profile: elder_newton Hi, I have a question. When I want to say "I described to you my reading of the book", I think I can say that as mi skicu fi do fe lenu mi tcidu le cukta but if I want to say it as "I described my reading of the book to you", then the "obvious" translation, mi skicu lenu mi tcidu le cukta do is incorrect because then the "do" is attached to the "tcidu" and not to the "skicu", as desired (and I guess the result means something like "I described how I read from the book which is written on you"). So I need at least one terminator in there somewhere. However, I'm not sure which ones. My first attempt was "ku", but mi skicu lenu mi tcidu le cukta ku do only terminates "le cukta" as argument to "tcidu" and still attaches "do" to "tcidu". However, all of the following appear to work (at least according to jbofi'e): mi skicu lenu mi tcidu le cukta ku ku do .i mi skicu lenu mi tcidu le cukta kei do .i mi skicu lenu mi tcidu le cukta kei ku do .i mi skicu lenu mi tcidu le cukta ku kei do I presume they can't all be correct -- or can they? If they are, is there a difference? Which would be the preferred way? If none is correct, what would be the correct way to say it? mu'omi'e filip. [email copies appreciated]