Subject: Re: [lojban] re: nazycau gerku and najyzme

From: "Jorge Llambias" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 11:21:08 PDT

la pycyn cusku di'e

><<
> za'a galfi le jufra (It seems to modify the sentence.)>>
[...]
> And will {galfi} really work: the sentence is
>unchanged and the lojban phrase is hardly an agent? {ve skicu}? [Natural 
>tight literalism in action]

Why can't a sentence be modified? Can't we say:

le nu pilno zo ba'o cu galfi lu i sidbo li'u
lu i ba'o sidbo li'u
The use of "ba'o" changes the sentence "i sidbo" into
the sentence "i ba'o sidbo".

{le jufra} has to refer to the sentence before the
modification, but that would be the case with any
object being modified, nothing special about sentences.

>.i mi pu'o ciksi zo nazyzme fo la'e lu kanba
>se cigla panci guzme li'u no'u la'e zoi gy. muskmelon .gy

i le mi vlacku cu xusra to lo cukta ka'e xusra toi
le du'u la'e zoi gy musk gy cu mirli se cigla

co'o mi'e xorxes

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