11. Eliding KE and KEhE rafsi from lujvo

11.1)    [ke] bakni rectu [ke'e] panlo
    ( bovine meat ) slice

11.2)    bakni ke rectu panlo [ke'e]
    bovine ( meat slice )

11.3)    zekri ke nenri klama [ke'e]
    crime ( inside go )
    to go within, criminally

11.4)    [ke] zekri nenri [ke'e] klama
    (crime inside) go

There are cases, however, where omitting a KE or KEhE rafsi can produce another lujvo, equally useful. For example, ``xaskemcakcurnu'' means ``oceanic shellfish'', and has the veljvo

11.5)    xamsi ke calku curnu
    ocean type-of (shell worm)

11.6)    [ke] xamsi calku [ke'e] curnu
    (ocean shell) type-of worm

Such misinterpretation is more likely than not in a lujvo starting with ``sel-'' (from ``se''), ``nal-'' (from ``na'e'') or ``tol-'' (from ``to'e''): the scope of the rafsi will likeliest be presumed to be as narrow as possible, since all of these cmavo normally bind only to the following brivla or ``ke ... ke'e'' group. For that reason, if we want to modify an entire lujvo by putting ``se'', ``na'e'' or ``to'e'' before it, it's better to leave the result as two words, or else to insert ``ke'', than to just stick the SE or NAhE rafsi on.

It is all right to replace the phrase ``se klama'' with ``selkla'', and the places of ``selkla'' are exactly those of ``se klama''. But consider the related lujvo ``dzukla'', meaning ``to walk to somewhere''. It is a symmmetrical lujvo, derived from the veljvo ``cadzu klama'' as follows:

11.7)    ``cadzu'': c1 walks on surface c2 using limbs c3
    ``klama'': k1 goes to k2 from k3 via route k4 using k5
    ``dzukla'': c1=k1 walks to k2 from k3 via route k4
        using limbs k5=c3 on surface c2

We can swap the k1 and k2 places using ``se dzukla'', but we cannot directly make ``se dzukla'' into ``seldzukla'', which would represent the veljvo ``selcadzu klama'' and plausibly mean something like ``to go to a walking surface''. Instead, we would need ``selkemdzukla'', with an explicit rafsi for ``ke''. Similarly, ``nalbrablo'' (from ``na'e barda bloti'') means ``non-big boat'', whereas ``na'e brablo'' means ``other than a big boat''.

If the lujvo we want to modify with SE has a seltau already starting with a SE rafsi, we can take a shortcut. For instance, ``gekmau'' means ``happier than'', while ``selgekmau'' means ``making people happier than, more enjoyable than, more of a 'se gleki' than''. If something is less enjoyable than something else, we can say it is ``se selgekmau''.

But we can also say it is ``selselgekmau''. Two ``se'' cmavo in a row cancel each other (``se se gleki'' means the same as just ``gleki''), so there would be no good reason to have ``selsel'' in a lujvo with that meaning. Instead, we can feel free to interpret ``selsel-'' as ``selkemsel-''. The rafsi combinations ``terter-'', ``velvel-'' and ``xelxel-'' work in the same way.

Other SE combinations like ``selter-'', although they might conceivably mean ``se te'', more than likely should be interpreted in the same way, namely as ``se ke te'', since there is no need to re-order places in the way that ``se te'' provides. (See Chapter 9.)