I hate {ku}

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Date:         Sat, 28 Sep 1991 09:43:48 -0400
From: Logical Language Group <lojbab%GREBYN.COM@pucc.PRINCETON.EDU>
Subject:      response #1 to Jim Carter

>jimc writes:

>syntactically, but not semantically.  The "ku" closes "loi birje", and the
>relative clause attaches shortest scope.  So you've said:
>soso lo botpi be loi birje ku        no'u soso lo botpi be loi birje
>99   bottles  of <[the mass of Beer] =    99   bottles  ...

Did I ever mention I hate {ku}? That's why we'll have to see a lot more of
{be'o} used in the language.

Oh, there is another candidate dikyjvo pattern that one may use when giving
up the ghost and totally unable to further reduce the damn thing: the "I give
up and die" analysis: for any two gismu a and b, let the lujvo b-a have the
arguments a1 a2 a3 a4 a5 b1 b2 b3 b4 b5. A pattern to be discouraged, as it
baloons out of control very quickly. But sometimes, inevitable. (I suppose
it's a special case of "parallel" dikyjvo).

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Nick Nicholas, Melbourne Uni, Australia.  nsn@{munagin.ee|mullauna.cs}.mu.oz.au
"Despite millions of dollars of research, death continues to be this nation's
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