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You expect to be able to use '''pu''' in place of '''cu''' in front of a selbri to close the front sumti - right?  Wrong - if it's an abstraction!
{{mu|le nu mi klama pu vajni}}
is a sumti with parse:
{{mu|<nowiki>({le < [nu (mi {klama < [pu KU] VAU>}) KEI] vajni> KU} VAU)}}</nowiki>}}


ti'e xamgu fa lo nunzga
==Discussion==
 
*I don't. Sounds like someone mislearned that tenses mark the start of selbri.
be loi mu'e mulno kazycukla
*To be fair, the book says:
 
{{quotation|The placement of a tense construct within a Lojban bridi is easy: right before the selbri. It goes immediately after the '''cu''', and can in fact always replace the '''cu'''.|[[CLL]], (10.1, p. 216)}}
kei po le lunra seljvinu
*Of course, it then goes on to say "(although in very complex sentences the rules for eliding terminators may be changed as a result)."
 
.i ku'i mi salci loiri mu'e traji
 
kazycinla keikuku seba'i
 
.i simsa fa mi ri leka manku kei
 
po'a .e lemi kazymipri .e
 
.a'o le kazvli be fi da poi nabona'e
 
terpe'u po'a fe le mujykra
 
.i ze'i loi mu'e traji kazycinla
 
kei kuku po'i le lunra
 
cu binxo le pamei zgana be vo'a
 
.i mi go'i .ije ku'i .oi nani'i
 
ku mi po'a se'o ru'i zgana lemi
 
nunynarza'i ji'a
 
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Latest revision as of 18:43, 26 July 2015

You expect to be able to use pu in place of cu in front of a selbri to close the front sumti - right? Wrong - if it's an abstraction!

le nu mi klama pu vajni

is a sumti with parse:

({le < [nu (mi {klama < [pu KU] VAU>}) KEI] vajni> KU} VAU)}}

Discussion

  • I don't. Sounds like someone mislearned that tenses mark the start of selbri.
  • To be fair, the book says:

The placement of a tense construct within a Lojban bridi is easy: right before the selbri. It goes immediately after the cu, and can in fact always replace the cu.

— CLL, (10.1, p. 216)

  • Of course, it then goes on to say "(although in very complex sentences the rules for eliding terminators may be changed as a result)."
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