[lojban-beginners] Re: I'm... My name's...

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Monday 25 June 2007 15:10, m.kornig@sondal.net wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there a difference in meaning between
> the two sentences {mi'e tim.} and {tim.
> cmene mi}? Are they both correct? Both
> used?

{tim. cmene mi} is grammatical for no obvious reason; a bare cmene has no 
clear meaning, and is not allowed immediately after {i}. What you want is 
{zo .tim. cmene mi}.

> Say you are with your friend and want
> to give her name as well. I guess this
> would be something like {djein. .e tim.
> cmene mi}? Can you do this with {mi'e},
> too, maybe straight forward {mi'e djein.
> .e tim.}?

As {mi} can be plural, yes, but I wouldn't know which of you is which. You 
need {zo} in the first sentence and {la} in the second (you can't join bare 
cmene with {e}).

> "What's your name?" would be {ma cmene
> do}. Again the question: can you ask
> about someone's name using {mi'e}, too?

If you're asking the person you're speaking to for his name, you can say {doi 
ma}. Asking for someone else's name, you might say {mi'edai ma}, but I'd 
rather say {ma cmene ta}.

Pierre