Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Fri, 12 Mar 2004 22:05:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.30) id 1B22HW-0000cP-J2 for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 22:05:58 -0800 Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 22:05:58 -0800 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Story time Message-ID: <20040313060558.GY11847@digitalkingdom.org> References: <20040312001528.P8729@fresco.Math.McGill.CA> <20040313013932.GV11847@digitalkingdom.org> <200403130257.VAA15694@Sparkle.Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200403130257.VAA15694@Sparkle.Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 599 X-Approved-By: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners Content-Length: 761 On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 09:54:02PM -0500, der Mouse wrote: > >> la bardivuar. vi le mi zdani cu barja > > Bardivuuar is a bar near my house. > > So I am confused in thinking that this places "mi" in the x1 place of > "zdani", thereby speaking of the speaker as a home/house/etc? Could > you clarify how this bridi is constructed? It's syntactic sugar. :-) "le mi zdani" == "le zdani po mi" == "the house associated with me" (or is it 'pe'? I can never remember) -Robin -- Me: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** I'm a *male* Robin. "Constant neocortex override is the only thing that stops us all from running out and eating all the cookies." -- Eliezer Yudkowsky http://www.lojban.org/ *** .i cimo'o prali .ui