mi cusku zo si si si

I answer lukeabergen's question about "si" (erase previous word), and also sing a related song by Daniel Brockman.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• selckiku
• lojban
• glibau
• english
• ctuca
• si
• erasure
• selsa'a
• nintadni

[lukeabergen]

Thanks for the response. Although I'm still confused. If I say "mi cusku zo si" at this point I'm saying "I say 'si' " now the next "si" erases the "si" from earlier, so now aren't we at "mi cusku zo" and then the third "si" would make it back into "mi cusku zo si". Wouldn't it?

[selckiku]

You could be right, Luke! The only argument I can think of against your interpretation is that it would ruin Daniel's awesome song.

[ross817]

Click here to skip to the song if, like me, you're trying to memorize it. :3

1:38

[lukeabergen]

@kehanocy no the zo quotes what comes next (the first si). the nect si kills the quoted first si, then the 3rd sii kills the zo that started the whole thing. though I'm hearing that "zo si" produces a single entity which the secod zo wipes out all of. so depending on who you ask, this song may be "broken" :(

[kehanocy]

@lukeabergen no... as he said the first 'si' is trying to erase 'zo' but 'zo' means repeat. Therefore, 'repeat' apparently wins out over 'forget'. The second 'si' is then needed to erase the 'zo', now that the 'zo' has used up its' meaning, in a sense... and the third 'si'... huh... it is left over, is it not? Does that then erase cusku?

[kehanocy]

LOL

[Volatile314]

Hah, wonderful! :) (Now I want to learn lojban even more.)

The swedish song, btw, is about frogs that have neither ears nor tails...

[djancak]

ui gleki mu'i lo du'u zo la'ai e zo sa'ai e zo le'ai pu'o zasti

i ki'e do lo do skina cu mansa

[djancak]

that would mean zo breaks si, and that would suck

[Twey0]

zo si na ka'e vimcu lo cmavo be zo si .i lo cusku ma'i lo za'i da'i na go'i cu na'e-ka'e vimcu za'u-pa valsi

{si} is not capable of erasing cmavo of class SI. The speaker, if, hypothetically speaking, this were not the case, would be incapable of erasing more than one word.

[Homofilos]

mi nelci le do selsa'a doi selckik

[Homofilos]

u'isai