[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: le reroi cuplinfanva cuntu
la xorxes. cusku di'e
> I've started using {sei} as an adverbifier. I don't really understand what
> it's supposed to be used for,
It's supposed to be used to manufacture new UI-like objects; decorations on
the selbri, not modifiers of it.
> but it is often very convenient to have
> selbri modifiers other than stuck directly to the selbri. I suppose
> {fi'o se krefu ku} would do as well, but it is longer and has a terminator.
So it does, but "fi'o" is the One True Way of making floating adverbs.
> > And doesn;t there need to be a {seu}?
>
> The second {sei krefu} gets attached to the first {krefu} according to the
> parser, but that seems ok: repeatedly repeating. The following {ca ji'a}
> does not get sucked into the sei.
More like "repeating (I repeat it!)".
> > How can you tell whether the {lio} is quoted or not?
>
> Good question... What if the voice actually did say the word {li'o}?
li'osa'anai
> I don't know. Maybe I should have said {li'osa'a}.
That works.
> > (Same question
> > for {si, sa, su} - how do you quote these?)
>
> Same answer. Perhaps {sisa'a} to actually delete a word within a quote,
> and {si} if that is what the person said. (What if the person actually
> said {sisa'a}?)
Then "si sa'asa'a". And so on.
--
John Cowan cowan@ccil.org
e'osai ko sarji la lojban.