From opi_lauma@yahoo.com Wed May 25 08:53:43 2005 Return-Path: X-Sender: opi_lauma@yahoo.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 53049 invoked from network); 25 May 2005 15:53:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.166) by m28.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 25 May 2005 15:53:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO web33411.mail.mud.yahoo.com) (68.142.206.143) by mta5.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 25 May 2005 15:53:42 -0000 Received: (qmail 78257 invoked by uid 60001); 25 May 2005 15:53:41 -0000 Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys Message-ID: <20050525155341.78255.qmail@web33411.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [141.2.216.130] by web33411.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 25 May 2005 08:53:41 PDT Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 08:53:41 -0700 (PDT) To: lojban@yahoogroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Originating-IP: 68.142.206.143 X-eGroups-Msg-Info: 1:12:0 From: Opi Lauma Subject: Again {lo}. X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=216990827; y=B-X_vOM4gCsf__nBkydnPrnBbeI5d0ALTumuWMKlWGHT2mJb X-Yahoo-Profile: opi_lauma X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 24417 >For example to say that the dog is man's best friend you >would use {lo gerku}: {lo gerku cu xagrai pendo lo >remna} OK, in this example {lo gerku} means neither "all dogs" nor "some dogs", it rather means "most of dogs" isn't? Really, we can say that "the dog is man's best friend" only if MOST OF DOGS are man's best friends. Or the same {lo gerku} can be replaced here by "a typical dog" without changes in meaning, I think. So, are "most of ..." and "a typical ..." correct substitution for {lo}? If "Yes", can this interpretation be used always? By the way in English sentence "The" has been used and in lojban {lo}. Why? What happens with "the <-> le", "an/a <-> lo" correspondence? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com