[lojban-beginners] Re: Hello, and owning things..

["Matt Arnold" <matt.mattarn@gmail.com>]

It's not a pluralization thing. "lo mi gerku" means the general idea
of all dogs you might ever own, without implying that you have any.
"le mi gerku" means a particular dog of yours which you have in mind,
but carries no implication about whether you have any others.

It's like the difference between saying "email was invented for the
internet" and you mean email in general, or "I got an email" in which
case you have in mind a particular emailed text.

-Eppcott

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 6:24 PM, Mark <mark@antelope.nildram.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi everyone!  :)  Just writing to introduce myself as I'm trying to pick up
> Lojban through the Lojban for Beginners lessons, but I have a question about
> owning things..
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> If I want to talk about "my dog", is that "lo mi gerku" or "le mi gerku"?
> My current understanding of how those words work, is that "le mi gerku"
> would imply that I have several dogs and I'm talking about a particular one
> of them that I have in mind - but then does "lo mi gerku" imply "my, one,
> dog" or "any of my, several, dogs", or an ambiguity between these?
>
> Mark
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