Lojban In General

On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 9:28 AM, tijlan <jbotijlan@gmail.com> wrote:
> In trying to come up with a suggestion for Ryan's recent post on Yoda
> quote "Do or do not, there is no try", i had the following piece
> tested with jbofi'e:
>
>  ja'a jonai na gasnu
>
> giving the result:
>
>  ja'a jo nai        na  gasnu            
>
> I'm baffled. It parses, but in such a strange way that "jonai" doesn't
> fufill its job as a connector, coming off the selbri, forming some
> mysterious construct with "ja'a" on their own.

"ja'ajonai" is a connector, like "najenai". Connectors are one of the
weird things allowed to appear at the very beginning of a text, so you
can answer a "ji" question by just giving the connector. "na gasnu" is
just the text following the initial dangling connector. So jbofi'e is
parsing correctly here.

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In trying to come up with a suggestion for Ryan's recent post on Yoda
quote "Do or do not, there is no try", i had the following piece
tested with jbofi'e:

ja'a jonai na gasnu

giving the result:

ja'a jo nai na gasnu

I'm baffled. It parses, but in such a strange way that "jonai" doesn't

fufill its job as a connector, coming off the selbri, forming some
mysterious construct with "ja'a" on their own.

mu'o mi'e tijlan

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2009/10/18 Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>:
>
> "ja'ajonai" is a connector, like "najenai". Connectors are one of the
> weird things allowed to appear at the very beginning of a text, so you
> can answer a "ji" question by just giving the connector.

I should have said a "je'i" question. A "ji" question could be
answered with "ja'a.onai".

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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