Subject: Re: [lojban] jbofi'e bug or I just don't get it.

From: Pierre Abbat <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 19:30:23 -0500

On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
>Why does
>
>.oi mi cafne na morji le du'u mi kanke pilno le cmavo be zo poi
>
>not parse but
>
>.oi mi cafne nalmorji le du'u mi kanke pilno le cmavo be zo poi
>
>does?

nal is the rafsi of na'e, not na. It parses with "na'e morji".

>And why does
>
>le nu mi pinxe xy. ba na lakne
>
>not pars but
>
>le nu mi pinxe xy. ku ba na lakne
>
>does?

The first one means "that I drink x after is not likely" - "ba" is modifying
"pinxe" and expecting a sumti, presumably an event. In the second, "ku" closes
"le" and "le nu mi pinxe xy. ku" is the subject of "ba na lakne". You could
have equally used "kei" which closes "nu".

phma