Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Sun, 10 Oct 2004 00:09:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.170.198] helo=mproxy.gmail.com) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CGXq6-0005PA-1l for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Sun, 10 Oct 2004 00:09:54 -0700 Received: by mproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 79so165510rnk for ; Sun, 10 Oct 2004 00:09:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.38.126.23 with SMTP id y23mr995666rnc; Sat, 09 Oct 2004 22:23:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.38.15.75 with HTTP; Sat, 9 Oct 2004 22:23:12 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <537d06d0041009222346c5f74a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 07:23:12 +0200 From: Philip Newton To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: [lojban] mabla notci In-Reply-To: <200410100321.XAA20411@Sparkle.Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII References: <057BB87B-1164-11D9-99CF-000A9589294C@mac.com> <200410100321.XAA20411@Sparkle.Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA> X-archive-position: 809 X-Approved-By: philip.newton@gmail.com 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: philip.newton@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners Content-Length: 584 On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 23:19:35 -0400 (EDT), der Mouse wrote: > > vecnu > > x1 sells x2 to x3 for amount x4 > > > te vecnu > > x3 is sold x2 by x1 for amount x4 > > That doesn't look quite right to me. > > I'd say that vecnu means both of those, and te vecnu means both > > x3 sells x2 to x1 for amount x4 > and > x1 is sold x2 by x3 for amount x4 > > Or Have I Missed Something (tm)? :-) I'd say you are correct. (te vecnu could also be glossed as "x1 buys x2 from x3 for amount x4".) mu'o mi'e .filip. -- Philip Newton