Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 20:31:30 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199710160131.UAA05649@locke.ccil.org> Reply-To: Lee Daniel Crocker Sender: Lojban list From: "Lee Daniel Crocker (none)" Organization: Piclab (http://www.piclab.com/) Subject: Re: Marriage, etc. X-To: bob@rattlesnake.com X-cc: Lojban Group To: John Cowan In-Reply-To: <199710152220.PAA11195@red.colossus.net> from "bob@MEGALITH.RATTLESNAKE.COM" at Oct 15, 97 06:11:59 pm X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 1010 Lines: 20 > I can't find the concept of agreement/pact/contract of any > kind in the gismu list. ... > How about a `law type-of agreement': flalysarxe The law doesn't really have much to do with it, but I suppose that {sarxe} is the right starting place. Maybe {bigsarxe} is what I'm looking for, and {simxu} can be used to get the other parties in on the deal. And I forgot that we did have {speni}; that makes the proposal easy: {mi cpedu/djica le nu do binxo mi speni} "I request/desire that you become my spouse". And perhaps that makes marriage {spesarxe}, making the proposal {ko spesarxe mi} "Be in a spouse type-of agreement with me". And {simspesarxe} might be needed in Utah... -- Lee Daniel Crocker "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC