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Posted by rlpowell on Sat 20 of Nov, 2004 21:34 GMT posts: 14214

On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 06:17:22AM -0800, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
>
> --- Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > > BPFK Section: sumtcita Formants
> > >
> >
> <http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=BPFK+Section%3A+sumtcita+Formants>
> >
> > That's not quite the kind of template I meant, but that's
> > helpful.
> >
> > Why the jai?
>
> Because in general we don't know in which place of selbri1 the
> main bridi will fall. For example, consider {se pi'o}, i.e. {fi'o
> se pilno}. We want {broda fi'o se pilno ko'a} to be {ko'a se pilno
> fi lo nu broda}. I write this as {lo nu broda cu jai se pilno
> fai ko'a} which puts ko'a in the x2 of pilno and {lo nu broda} in
> some place of {pilno}.

That's a good point, but it is not what "jai selbri" means.

ko'a cu jai selbri == tu'a ko'a cu selbri

See Chapter 11. something-to-do-with ko'a is in the x1 place of
selbri in either case, unless I'm very badly mis-reading something.

For what you want, I suggest {fa xi zo'e}.

-Robin