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

["Adam D. Lopresto" <adam@pubcrawler.org>]

On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, m.kornig@sondal.net wrote:

> Selon Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>:
> 
> > > 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}).
> 
> So it's {mi'e tim} (no article) and {mi'e la
> djein. e la tim} (articles needed in front of both
> names)?

Those are both acceptable; so is {mi'e la .tim.} (article in front of the
only name).

COI and DOI can take a bare cmevla ({coi .tim.}), a selbri tail ({coi se
bangu be la .lojban.}), or a sumti ({coi la .djein. .e la .tim.}). 

Though {mi'e la .tim. .e la .djein.} is grammatical, I'm really not sure that
it means the right thing.  It strikes me a lot like {zo .tim. .e zo .djein.
cmene mi}, which would be saying that both of them are names for me.  I think
I'd handle introducing someone else with either {.i ti du la .djein.} or {.i
zo .djein. cmene ti}.
-- 
Adam Lopresto
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