From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Thu Feb 06 10:41:20 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Thu, 06 Feb 2003 10:41:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.12) id 18gqxb-0004lh-00 for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Thu, 06 Feb 2003 10:41:19 -0800 Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 10:41:19 -0800 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Intonation of xu (was Re: (no subject)) Message-ID: <20030206184119.GB16074@digitalkingdom.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 73 X-Approved-By: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 12:41:14PM +0100, Newton, Philip wrote: > Theodore Reed wrote: > > > > .i.e'u ko troci tu'a la jbofi'e .i.o'acu'i mi ta'e pilno > > > > ri lepu'u cipra pu mi gubyternoi > > > > Am I the only one that noticed his usage of "ri"? Doesn't > > "ri" mean the last sumti? ie "mi pilno ri" would be "I use myself". > > I noticed, but since I'm not sure about the "back-counting rules" that ri > uses to determine the referent, I didn't comment on it. All pro-sumti ignore all other pro-sumti for referential purposes, as I understand it. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** I'm a *male* Robin. .i le pamoi velru'e zo'u crepu le plibu taxfu .i le remoi velru'e zo'u mo .i le cimoi velru'e zo'u ba'e prali .uisai http://www.lojban.org/ *** to sa'a cu'u lei pibyta'u cridrnoma toi