Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 11:17:12 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199711241617.LAA28496@locke.ccil.org> Reply-To: Rick Nylander Sender: Lojban list From: Rick Nylander Subject: Re: 'your will' as sumti X-To: Lojban list To: John Cowan X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 587 X-From-Space-Date: Mon Nov 24 11:17:13 1997 X-From-Space-Address: LOJBAN@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU Mark E. Shoulson writes: >This has probably been addressed, but you're being a little confused by a >twist in Lojban's grammar. {le do djica} is a shorthand for {le djica pe >do}. {le djica} is "the desirer, the one(s) who desire", and this is "the >desirer restrictively associated with you: your desirer" (not necessarily >one who desires you, but that's a reasonable interpretation). Yeah. That was my first attempt to compose an original phrase in lojban. LDC's post, followed by John Cowan, pointing out chap. 8, section 7 of the refgram showed me the error of my ways. Rik.