Re: Two queries

[cowan (John Cowan)]

> Semantic:  We all know that {ke'a} in a subordinate clause refers back to
> the sumti being described/restricted.  What if you have nested subordinate
> clauses and want to use the outer {ke'a} in the inner clause?  I mean like:
> 
> mi catlu le nanmu poi do pu tavla le ninmu poi [ke'a] prami ke'a
> 
> The first {ke'a} might be ellipsizable, and maybe this isn't the best
> example, but I think you can see the problem.  Just saying that {ke'a} is
> always the innermost one is not a good answer, I think.  Sometimes you want
> to lower it one further down.  I suspect the best answer is simply to use
> subscripting:  {ke'axipa} is innermost or just {ke'a}, the next one out is
> {ke'axire} and so on.  This sound good?  Already suggested?

Good, and already suggested.  Always nice when somebody independently
re-derives the same answer:  it indicates that the lojbo >Sprachgefuehl<
is getting better distributed.

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