From sentto-44114-17250-1038510885-lojban-in=lojban.org@returns.groups.yahoo.com Thu Nov 28 11:20:05 2002 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 28 Nov 2002 11:20:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from n15.grp.scd.yahoo.com ([66.218.66.70]) by digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.05) id 18HUCf-00009x-01 for lojban-in@lojban.org; Thu, 28 Nov 2002 11:20:01 -0800 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-44114-17250-1038510885-lojban-in=lojban.org@returns.groups.yahoo.com Received: from [66.218.67.192] by n15.grp.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 28 Nov 2002 19:14:45 -0000 X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_3_0); 28 Nov 2002 19:14:45 -0000 Received: (qmail 84344 invoked from network); 28 Nov 2002 19:14:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m10.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 28 Nov 2002 19:14:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO neofelis.ixazon.lan) (208.150.110.21) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 28 Nov 2002 19:14:44 -0000 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id 1900C3C6E2; Thu, 28 Nov 2002 14:14:39 -0500 (EST) To: lojban@yahoogroups.com X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: In-Reply-To: X-Spamtrap: fesmri@ixazon.dynip.com Message-Id: <02112814143607.02982@neofelis> From: Pierre Abbat MIME-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: list lojban@yahoogroups.com; contact lojban-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list lojban@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 14:14:36 -0500 Subject: [lojban] Re: How would you say "plural" and "singular"? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-archive-position: 2737 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@webjockey.net Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Thursday 28 November 2002 14:09, Jorge Llambias wrote: > la djorden cusku di'e li'o > >Doesn't change that it's somewhat cheating though. > > Not just "somewhat". If you must borrow the word, then that's > what fu'ivla are for. CMENE are for proper names. So you can > say for example: {zoi gy dogs gy plurale zoi gy dog gy}, > {zoi gy dog gy singulare zoi gy dogs gy}. {me} with a cmene is a stage-2 fu'ivla. phma To unsubscribe, send mail to lojban-unsubscribe@onelist.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/