From phma@webjockey.net Sun Apr 04 18:58:38 2004 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 98283 invoked from network); 5 Apr 2004 01:58:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.172) by m8.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 5 Apr 2004 01:58:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO blackcat.ixazon.lan) (208.150.110.21) by mta4.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 5 Apr 2004 01:58:34 -0000 Received: by blackcat.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 7D78023A8; Mon, 5 Apr 2004 01:58:33 +0000 (UTC) Organization: dis To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2004 20:58:32 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <20040404222303.GD23652@digitalkingdom.org> <200404041950.52120.phma@webjockey.net> <20040405011719.GF23652@digitalkingdom.org> In-Reply-To: <20040405011719.GF23652@digitalkingdom.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200404042158.32235.phma@webjockey.net> X-eGroups-Remote-IP: 208.150.110.21 From: Pierre Abbat Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: The strange case of "le me by moi" X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=92712300 X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 21907 On Sunday 04 April 2004 21:17, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 06:50:52PM -0500, Pierre Abbat wrote: > > It means "the one belonging to by". > > Seems like you didn't take 'moi' into account, unless you mean "the > first belonging to by"? The construction {me KOhA moi} was introduced to provide a way to say "This is mine" without having to say "This is my broda". The construction {ME MOI} was put into the grammar to be able to say "a snowball's chance in hell". At least that's the example in Chapter 18. phma -- li fi'u vu'u fi'u fi'u du li pa