From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed Jul 30 15:24:40 2008 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:24:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KOK64-00039f-Fm for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:24:40 -0700 Received: from mk-outboundfilter-4.mail.uk.tiscali.com ([212.74.114.32]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KOK60-00038p-Id for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:24:40 -0700 X-Trace: 117283320/mk-outboundfilter-2.mail.uk.tiscali.com/F2S/$F2S-NILDRAM-ACCEPTED/f2s-temporary-group/212.139.135.3 X-SBRS: None X-RemoteIP: 212.139.135.3 X-IP-MAIL-FROM: mark@antelope.nildram.co.uk X-IP-BHB: Once X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApAKAByHkEjUi4cD/2dsb2JhbACTNR0 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.31,281,1215385200"; d="scan'208";a="117283320" X-IP-Direction: IN Received: from mk-nildram-webmail-1.uk.tiscali.com (HELO UebiMiau) ([212.139.135.3]) by smtp.f2s.tiscali.co.uk with SMTP; 30 Jul 2008 23:24:29 +0100 Received: from client 62.3.233.118 for UebiMiau2.7 (webmail client); Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:24:29 +0100 Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:24:29 +0100 From: "Mark" X-Webmail-User: 376e65522c373672 To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Hello, and owning things.. X-Priority: 3 X-Original-IP: 62.3.233.118 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MSMail-Priority: Medium Importance: Medium Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / Message-Id: X-archive-position: 732 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: mark@antelope.nildram.co.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners Hi everyone! :) Just writing to introduce myself as I'm trying to pick up Lojban through the Lojban for Beginners lessons, but I have a question about owning things.. If I want to talk about "my dog", is that "lo mi gerku" or "le mi gerku"? My current understanding of how those words work, is that "le mi gerku" would imply that I have several dogs and I'm talking about a particular one of them that I have in mind - but then does "lo mi gerku" imply "my, one, dog" or "any of my, several, dogs", or an ambiguity between these? Mark ________________________________________________ Message sent using UebiMiau 2.7.2