From LOJBAN%CUVMB.BITNET@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU Wed Dec  6 18:28:06 1995
Reply-To: "Steven M. Belknap" <sbelknap@UIC.EDU>
Date: Wed Dec 6 18:28:06 1995
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From: "Steven M. Belknap" <sbelknap@UIC.EDU>
Subject:      the mind's domain
To: John Cowan <cowan@LOCKE.CCIL.ORG>
Status: OR
Message-ID: <_zC063ymJ-I.A.iOG.Gv0kLB@chain.digitalkingdom.org>

la stiv cusku di'e

>a (probably) simple question...
>I am trying to form a bridi expressing:
>"This-here-thing is a universe in the domain of the mind, defined by the rules
> of that-there-thing"
>the brivla for this bridi is "munje"
>my first attempt was
>
>ti munje le menli ku ta
>
>but it occured to me that "le menli ku" would probably be taken to mean
>"the/a-thing-described-as-a mind" whereas i want it to be more or less
>an idea of a mind rather than any specific mind or minds
>is there a way to specify this?  the closest i can get is
>
>ti menli munje zo'e ta

How about:

ti xabju le menli

"This is the domain of the mind."


co'o mi'e la stivn.


Steven M. Belknap, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Medicine
University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria

email: sbelknap@uic.edu
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