Subject: [lojban] Re: sumtcita needed, badly.

From: Rob Speer <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 21:41:44 -0500

On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 04:01:18PM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> Uhhh, "I say that you talked to me" is "mi cusku le du'u do mi tavla',
> isn't it? "mi cusku lesedu'u do mi tavla" is "I say the sentece "do mi
> tavla"", isn't it?
> 
> The x2 of du'u is a literal sentence:
> 
> du'u NU bridi abstract
> abstractor: predication/bridi abstractor; x1 is
> predication [bridi] expressed in sentence x2

You're thinking of abstractions as if they were brivla. The thing inside
"du'u" or "sedu'u" isn't the x1 or x2, it's [bridi]. x1 and x2 are two
different abstractions that come from this bridi. The {se} only switches
these places; it doesn't change what the du'u contains.

-- 
mu'o mi'e rab.spir