From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Jul 04 12:12:53 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 04 Jul 2006 12:12:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1FxqKK-0000qI-UC for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 12:12:53 -0700 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1FxqKK-0000qB-KD for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 12:12:52 -0700 Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 12:12:52 -0700 To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: CLL p 95 - huh? Message-ID: <20060704191252.GM9631@chain.digitalkingdom.org> References: <44AA1FD6.9030906@hypermetrics.com> <20060704080511.GE9631@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <44AA266B.60807@hypermetrics.com> <20060704163207.GF9631@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <44AABBE6.5060208@hypermetrics.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44AABBE6.5060208@hypermetrics.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060403 From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 3325 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 02:05:10PM -0500, Hal Fulton wrote: > Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > > >No; that would be {zdani be mi melbi le speni be mi} (note the > >lack of co). Remember, the gloss for co is "of type", so it's > >"house of me of type beautiful to my spouse". > > > > Thank you. Once again, obvious in retrospect. I knew the gloss "of > type", but was still muttering "type of" to myself. > > Must stop posting after 2 am. > > >>Could I say (without inversion): - ta zdani be mi be'o cu melbi > >>le speni be mi > > > >Illegal unless you drop the cu. If you drop the cu the meaning > >changes a lot, and you're talking about a house-ish-ly beautiful > >thing instead of a beautiful house. > > Not obvious to me why dropping the cu is necessary. Because if you don't, you have two selbri. "ta zdani be mi" has a selbri already. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!" Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/