From - Thu Apr 17 12:13:33 1997 Reply-To: ia@stryx.demon.co.uk Date: Thu Apr 17 12:13:33 1997 Sender: Lojban list From: Iain Alexander Subject: Re: Lojban ML: Re: ma'oste X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: John Cowan X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 617 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