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On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 11:46:59 -0800, webmaster@lojban.org
<webmaster@lojban.org> wrote:
> ;za'e (BAhE): Nonce word follows. Forethought nonce-word
> indicator. Indicates that the next word is a nonce creation
> or is nonstandard in some way. For grammatical purposes, "za'e"
> binds with and marks the following word but does not change its
> nature.
...
> doi grizis mi tcidu za'e la ralcku
> Grizis, I read what I'll call "The Book".

This looks to me as if {za'e} applies to {la ralcku}, while the
explanation with its use of "word" would lead me to apply {za'e} only
to {la}... which is correct?

If {za'e} applies only to {la}, then {ralcku} is not marked, so I
suppose the speaker is saying "I'm using {la}, which usually marks
names, but I'm using that gadri in a non-standard way. This
non-standard gadri will apply to the perfectly-normal brivla
{ralcku}."

mu'o mi'e .filip.
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@gmail.com>