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Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 10:50:25 -0500
From: Adam COOPER <adamgarrigus@gmail.com>
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Subject: [lojban] Re: Exact translation of the pronoun "we"
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On 11/7/05, Yanis Batura <ybatura@mail.ru> wrote:
>
> Dear Lojbanists,
>
>
> is there an EXACT translation of English pronoun "we"
>
> (the semantics of which is something like:
>
> me, the speaker, and AT LEAST one other person somehow related to me)?
>

Well, there's {mi}, there's {mi'a}, there's {mi'o} (speaker +
listener/addressee), and there's {ma'a} (speaker + listener + third
person(s)). I'm trying to think of a situation where one says "we" in
English & cannot pin the meaning down to one of these four...

mu'o mi'e komfo,amonan

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On 11/7/05, <b class=3D"gmail_sendername">Yanis Batura</b> &lt;<a href=3D"m=
ailto:ybatura@mail.ru">ybatura@mail.ru</a>&gt; wrote:<div><span class=3D"gm=
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<p>Dear Lojbanists,</p>
<p><br></p>
<p>is there an EXACT translation of English pronoun &quot;we&quot;</p>
<p>(the semantics of which is something like:</p>
<p>me, the speaker, and AT LEAST one other person somehow related to me)?</=
p></blockquote><div><br>
Well, there's {mi}, there's {mi'a}, there's {mi'o} (speaker +
listener/addressee), and there's {ma'a} (speaker + listener + third
person(s)). I'm trying to think of a situation where one says &quot;we&quot=
; in
English &amp; cannot pin the meaning down to one of these four...<br>
<br>
mu'o mi'e komfo,amonan<br>
</div><br></div><br>

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