From LOJBAN@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU Sat Mar 6 22:48:49 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: veion@XIRON.PC.HELSINKI.FI Received: (qmail 19894 invoked from network); 17 Apr 1997 10:36:56 -0000 Received: from segate.sunet.se (192.36.125.6) by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with SMTP; 17 Apr 1997 10:36:56 -0000 Received: from segate.sunet.se by SEGATE.SUNET.SE (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <15.7F672BD8@SEGATE.SUNET.SE>; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 12:36:55 +0100 Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 22:05:22 GMT Reply-To: ia@stryx.demon.co.uk Sender: Lojban list From: Iain Alexander Subject: Re: Lojban ML: Re: ma'oste X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: Veijo Vilva Content-Length: 595 Lines: 18 Message-ID: In message <861085162.1019085.0@vms.dc.lsoft.com> lionelb@ASI.FR writes: > > I will be the Candide and ask whether the following structure exists in lojban: > > "Who would like to be sent it (by me)?" > (On the shape of 's-one is given s-th by s-one'.) If I understand your question correctly, yes ma djica lenu te benji ti is the Lojban form closest to your English example. (This assumes we're using {ti} for "it", which was reasonable in the original context.) -- Iain Alexander PGP 1024-bit key id B501A0AD ia@stryx.demon.co.uk I.Alexander@bsn0106.wins.icl.co.uk