From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Fri Jan 09 12:34:24 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Fri, 09 Jan 2004 12:34:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.30) id 1Af3Kl-0000zB-Br for lojban-list@lojban.org; Fri, 09 Jan 2004 12:34:19 -0800 Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 12:34:19 -0800 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: On not using du for is Message-ID: <20040109203419.GQ18943@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 6935 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 08:29:30PM -0000, hfroark wrote: > So, if I were speaking of my mother as it is usually understood in > English, I would say "ti mamta mi". "ti du le mi mamta" isn't > wrong, but means the same as "ti du le mi pe mamta" and That's not grammatical; "ti du mi pe le mamta" is, but is very strange and certainly isn't the same thing. > Now my question is how would I best express "ti du le mamta pe mi" > without the "du"? ti pe mi cu mamta ti poi mamta cu srana mi Probably several others. -- Me: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** I'm a *male* Robin. "Constant neocortex override is the only thing that stops us all from running out and eating all the cookies." -- Eliezer Yudkowsky http://www.lojban.org/ *** .i cimo'o prali .ui