Subject: RE: [lojban] Purpose of bridi

From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 07:30:08 -0400

At 12:06 AM 06/12/2001 +0000, Jorge Llambias wrote:
>{nei} is just one of those useless cmavo occupying the short
>form that should have gone to something more useful...

Not knowing what the book says about it, I believe that nei was put in to 
simplify anaphora references in very complex, multi-levelled bridi. Its 
typical usage would be similar to "le go'i", and "le se go'i" for the 
previous bridi. It goes along with no'a for references to outer levels of 
nested bridi. Possibly there is a use for "le nu nei" or "lesedu'u nei" 
within a place of a bridi as well.

lojbab
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