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On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Robin Lee Powell wrote:

>> Examples erroneously tagged as artificial:
>> cu'u le jbogri .e le flalu la lojban cu ba'e du la loglan
>> This is only a slightly edited version of:
>> 15:08 cu'u le jbogri .e le flalu le lojbo cu ba'e du le loglo
>
> Erm, that's not tagged as artificial.

The line below says:

"Artificial? From the CLL:"

I assumed they referred to separate sentences, since I tend to see CLL
examples as live usages.

>> lo jenmi cu jibri mi se ca'i lo jbama
>>
>> pe'i ro jibri cu fasnu .i lo jenmi na fasnu .i semu'ibo mi stidi
>> tu'a zo selplijibri .a lo simsa
>
> xu lu lo nu sonci cu jibri mi li'u cu xamgu

pe'i go'i

>> lo nu mi cliva cu curmi te ca'i lo minde be lo nolraitru
>>
>> s/minde/midnoi (to lo minde cu prenu toi)
>
> mi pilno lu te minde li'u

Maybe I am missing something here, but the x3 of minde is the action that
is commanded. Can this commanded action be a basis for authority?

>> Also, I am a bit worried on whether you can say "so'a da" without
>> restricting it to "prenu" or some such — is "ku'u lo lijda"
>> sufficient to constrain quantification in the main clause?
>
> Well, it is limited to things that can cusku fi lo cevni; is that
> not sufficient?

I may be wrong, but I don't think quantified claims are constrained by the
main selbri. If they were, it would be impossible to predicate anything
over everything (universal claims).

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