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Posted by stevo on Sun 14 of Nov, 2004 13:39 GMT posts: 381

In a message dated 2004-11-13 11:24:42 PM Eastern Standard Time,
webmaster@lojban.org writes:

> * rotsu ke cindu stani ke'e zdani poi se mlana lo takybli fa'a le ricfoi
>

Doesn't this need a gadri at the beginning to make the "poi" work?

stevo

Posted by rlpowell on Mon 15 of Nov, 2004 01:52 GMT posts: 14214

On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 08:03:16AM -0500,
MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com wrote:
> In a message dated 2004-11-13 11:24:42 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> webmaster@lojban.org writes:
>
>
> > * rotsu ke cindu stani ke'e zdani poi se mlana lo takybli fa'a
> > le ricfoi
>
> Doesn't this need a gadri at the beginning to make the "poi" work?

Indeed.

-Robin

Posted by stevo on Mon 15 of Nov, 2004 01:52 GMT posts: 381

In a message dated 2004-11-14 7:21:25 PM Eastern Standard Time,
webmaster@lojban.org writes:

> ! Solutions
>
> * le mlana be fi lo tricu po le zdani cu staku
> **le mlana be le zdani bei lo tricu cu staku
> * lo tricu cu jvinu le zdani le staku bitmu
> * lo tricu cu crane le zdani tu'a le staku bitmu
> * le zdani bitmu be fa'a lo tricu cu staku
> * lo rotsu ke cindu stani ke'e zdani poi se mlana lo takybli le ricfoi
>

As far as I can tell, all but the last of these are sentences, whereas the
original English is a noun phrase with prepositional modifiers.

stevo