From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Mon Jan 07 08:46:00 2008 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Mon, 07 Jan 2008 08:46:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JBv6u-0005ot-DA for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 08:46:00 -0800 Received: from phma.optus.nu ([166.82.175.165] helo=ixazon.dynip.com) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JBv6p-0005og-Q1 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 08:46:00 -0800 Received: from chausie (unknown [192.168.7.4]) by ixazon.dynip.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 659EDCE8F4 for ; Sun, 6 Jan 2008 22:34:01 -0500 (EST) From: Pierre Abbat To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] preposition whose object is a vocative phrase Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 22:33:56 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200801062233.57198.phma@phma.optus.nu> X-Spam-Score: 0.1 X-Spam-Score-Int: 1 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 14087 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@phma.optus.nu Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list I noticed [[xingu'e]] on Wikipedia, made a few changes (such as boldfacing "barat"), and then noticed the following sentence: ko'a cu remoi barda gugde fi'o merli tadji lo prenu klani fi'o kansa mu'o le gigdo prenu gi'e zemoi barda gugde fi'o merli tadji lo tutra klani This looks like a malgli xelfanva of something ("remoi barda", for instance, is supposed to mean "second largest"), but "mu'o" makes no sense at all, and the writer obviously meant something like "ji'i". I threw the sentence at jbofi'e and was surprised to see it parse. What does "fi'o kansa mu'o le gigdo prenu" mean? Pierre To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.