From lojban-out@lojban.org Tue Jan 08 04:31:47 2008 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com X-Received: (qmail 37021 invoked from network); 8 Jan 2008 12:31:47 -0000 X-Received: from unknown (66.218.67.97) by m55.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 8 Jan 2008 12:31:47 -0000 X-Received: from unknown (HELO mail5.sea5.speakeasy.net) (69.17.117.7) by mta18.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 8 Jan 2008 12:31:47 -0000 X-Received: (qmail 18595 invoked from network); 8 Jan 2008 12:31:46 -0000 X-Received: from chain.digitalkingdom.org ([64.81.66.169]) (envelope-sender ) by mail5.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 8 Jan 2008 12:31:46 -0000 X-Received: from lojban-out by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JCDcN-00067M-Qi for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:31:44 -0800 X-Received: from chain.digitalkingdom.org ([64.81.66.169]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JCDbq-00060t-JY; Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:31:14 -0800 X-Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:29:39 -0800 (PST) X-Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JCDaN-00060l-5v for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:29:39 -0800 X-Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.198.184]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JCDaJ-00060P-0R for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:29:38 -0800 X-Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id b22so6016040rvf.46 for ; Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:29:29 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.141.132.8 with SMTP id j8mr11319196rvn.253.1199795369402; Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:29:29 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.141.190.17 with HTTP; Tue, 8 Jan 2008 04:29:29 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <96f789a60801080429t5011d295tfe2d2ed9ab233b9c@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 07:29:29 -0500 In-Reply-To: <200801062233.57198.phma@phma.optus.nu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200801062233.57198.phma@phma.optus.nu> X-Spam-Score: -0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 14090 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: mturniansky@gmail.com X-list: lojban-list X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / To: lojban@yahoogroups.com X-Originating-IP: 69.17.117.7 X-eGroups-Msg-Info: 1:12:0:0:0 X-eGroups-From: "Michael Turniansky" From: "Michael Turniansky" Reply-To: mturniansky@gmail.com Subject: [lojban] Re: preposition whose object is a vocative phrase X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=116389790; y=seXyBDGdHCpXVsVhPRBvP36vL-zImeku6BcaROe-56xSn_RMlw X-Yahoo-Profile: lojban_out X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 28572 On Jan 6, 2008 10:33 PM, Pierre Abbat wrote: lani > > 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". > Actually, it's obvious that their intent was "...with ("kansa") over ("mu'o") a billion people" >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? Of course, the actual meaning is "....Accompanyingly. Over to you, one billion people." --gejyspa 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.