Received: from mail-qa0-f56.google.com ([209.85.216.56]:46437) by stodi.digitalkingdom.org with esmtps (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1SV5sS-0008Au-9w; Thu, 17 May 2012 11:56:53 -0700 Received: by qauh8 with SMTP id h8sf2223753qau.1 for ; Thu, 17 May 2012 11:56:37 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlegroups.com; s=beta; h=x-beenthere:mime-version:date:in-reply-to:references:user-agent :x-http-useragent:message-id:subject:from:to:x-original-sender :x-original-authentication-results:reply-to:precedence:mailing-list :list-id:x-google-group-id:list-post:list-help:list-archive:sender :list-subscribe:list-unsubscribe:content-type; bh=bKlbryihczuhJtAcelw5GVookKQbPWi0r3omrAlwm0I=; b=zeJxrLHMR7k1B+7b8XkfGQEuhXTmD1xduuhqmfrxBNBafRhHzfRWYFbqWmBTfvIbbA 4ZzXKmkr/otoM627+hCdaQCQh1/nTXq3se0xKiKix1yFSDAzeFnY5+/PxtfQX5Qo+TQe i6XrGQIM7Fc/fmLBkP+C1zbiGynDRlxoJr9mA= Received: by 10.52.34.8 with SMTP id v8mr406476vdi.5.1337280997572; Thu, 17 May 2012 11:56:37 -0700 (PDT) X-BeenThere: lojban@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.52.88.40 with SMTP id bd8ls533365vdb.0.gmail; Thu, 17 May 2012 11:56:36 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.52.66.44 with SMTP id c12mr396725vdt.19.1337280996922; Thu, 17 May 2012 11:56:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: by dg7g2000vbb.googlegroups.com with HTTP; Thu, 17 May 2012 11:56:36 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 11:56:36 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <57eea83e-5586-41fa-acf8-7d5b0f2dc1ae@r4g2000pbf.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/536.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/19.0.1084.46 Safari/536.5,gzip(gfe) Message-ID: <6b726297-15fd-4898-9a57-c25019ef811f@dg7g2000vbb.googlegroups.com> Subject: [lojban] Re: What can you do with Lojban that you can't do with English? From: ianek To: lojban X-Original-Sender: janek37@gmail.com X-Original-Authentication-Results: ls.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of janek37@gmail.com designates internal as permitted sender) smtp.mail=janek37@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=@gmail.com Reply-To: lojban@googlegroups.com Precedence: list Mailing-list: list lojban@googlegroups.com; contact lojban+owners@googlegroups.com List-ID: X-Google-Group-Id: 1004133512417 List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: Sender: lojban@googlegroups.com List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) X-Spam_score: -0.7 X-Spam_score_int: -6 X-Spam_bar: / On 17 Maj, 15:15, Jonathan Jones wrote: > On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 9:36 PM, Alex Private wrote: > > > S/he likes his/her dog. > > You could just write: 'They like their dog' in English though... > > If you're referring to multiple people, sure. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they > -- > mu'o mi'e .aionys. > > .i.e'ucai ko cmima lo pilno be denpa bu .i doi.luk. mi patfu do zo'o > (Come to the Dot Side! Luke, I am your father. :D ) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "lojban" group. To post to this group, send email to lojban@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to lojban+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/lojban?hl=en.