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Re: la <selbri> (was: gadri )



John Cowan writes:

> 	la cribe poi blanu [ku]
> 	the-one-called "Bear who is blue"
>
> vs.
>
> 	la cribe ku poi blanu
> 	the-one-called "Bear" who is blue
>
> Historically, Loglan/Lojban had only the second possibility, and the "ku"
> could be omitted.  Now we allow relative clauses both outside and inside
> descriptions, and such distinctions can be made easily.

Yes, John's example is much better -- and I'm happy to see the distinction
between inside and outside clauses.  I'll check out "voi" also.

		-- jimc