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On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Mike S. <maikxlx@gmail.com> wrote: > > la xrma le sme je strafe bjrafe > "The horse is swiftly running." > > This is probably going to be common enough of a construction that we'll > want a shortcut. I propose a new binary, "joy": > > la xrma joy bjra stra > "A/the horse in the same event runs and is fast." > "The horse runs fast." > > ... in which some variable is bound and understood to be f-suffixed to > "bjra" and "stra". This variable could be anonymous, or better yet, assign > it as "oy" to match "joy" (understood as bound as "loy smoy" until assigned > again) for possible use elsewhere. I like it, but I'd use "ju" which is available. If it turns out it would be useful to have the vowel be a variable rather than there purely for morphological reasons, I would say use a different consonant as a new binding operator. > There is a question regarding the nesting of "joy"s. Should we keep > repeating "joy" or is "je" sufficient for nested subsentences. In other > words the question is of rendering "The horse runs fast and happily" as: > > la xrma joy bjra joy stra glka > > ... versus > > la xrma joy bjra je stra glka > > I prefer the sound of the second. They are logically equivalent once joy/ju is expanded, right? ki'e mi'e xorxes