[lojban-beginners] Re: Mr. Data

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 04:54:18PM -0400, Betsemes wrote:
> > Full agreement.  In the case of "Mr. Data", I would use "la
> > datni..........
> 
> la datni?????? I've read that "la" is for cmene while "datni" is
> not a cmene. Am I missing something?

Yes.  "la" can go in front of cmene or any brivla; in the latter
case it turns the brivla into a name; "the thing named Data" in this
case.

-Robin

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