Subject: Re: [lojban] pro-sumti question

From: Jordan DeLong <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 21:27:24 -0500

On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 08:02:55PM -0400, [email-masked] wrote:
> In a message dated 7/4/2002 5:08:35 PM Central Daylight Time, 
> [email-masked] writes:
> 
> 
> > IIRC, ri, ra and ru skip sumti of: ri ra ru ko'[aeiou] mi do ti ta tu ...
> > Additionally, "ra" != "rixire". ra just refers to a further-than-last
> > sumti, not the next to last.
> 
> This sounds right, once said, so I withdraw my hope that {ri/a/u} is 
> unambiguous, but hope this avoids the kind of doubling up that Nora 
> suggested.
> 

for the record (I think this may be what you meant, but it was phrased
slightly odd):
- ri is unambiguous. ri xi <something> is unambiguous.
- ra and ru are ambiguous.
- ru must always refer to something earlier than a ra in the same
utterance. (spoon example in chap7).

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Jordan DeLong
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