From jcowan@reutershealth.com Wed May 30 13:13:26 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 30 May 2001 20:13:26 -0000 Received: (qmail 97186 invoked from network); 30 May 2001 20:12:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 30 May 2001 20:12:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.reutershealth.com) (204.243.9.36) by mta2 with SMTP; 30 May 2001 20:12:49 -0000 Received: from reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@[192.168.3.11]) by mail.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA22236; Wed, 30 May 2001 16:16:25 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3B1553B2.1010500@reutershealth.com> Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 16:10:26 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686; en-US; rv:0.9) Gecko/20010505 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pycyn@aol.com Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Request for grammar clarifications References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 7378 pycyn@aol.com wrote: > I doubt it. Every use of {me} seems to have a more natural expressions > using > {du}, possibly with {pa} if there is some doubt about quantity. The paradigm sentence for the current "me" is "Melchior is one of the [le] Three Kings." -- There is / one art || John Cowan no more / no less || http://www.reutershealth.com to do / all things || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan with art- / lessness \\ -- Piet Hein