Subject: [lojban] Re: BPFK phpbb

From: Robert LeChevalier <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 12:38:02 -0400

At 05:54 AM 4/30/03 -0700, bancus wrote:
[unquotable due to GPG]

dakau means exactly the same as makau, and was originally what we used.
mikau means the same thing with the suggestion that "mi" is the value.

ko'a djuno ledu'u mikau klama le zarci
X knows who went to the store (it was me).
which has a different emphasis/meaning than
ko'a djuno ledu'u mi klama le zarci
X knows that I went to the store.
ko'a djuno ledu'u makau klama le zarci
X knows who went to the store.

This can be extended to have kau modify more than an individual word, as a 
UI can modify a construct:

ko'a djuno ledu'u makau fasnu
X knows what happened.
ko'a djuno ledu'u lenu mi klama le zarci keikau fasnu
X knows the event (my going to the store) that happened.

That was all of course where things were 5-10 years ago. I won't pretend to 
understand where kau has gone since then, and whether these usages still fly.

lojbab

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