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

[Mark <mark@antelope.nildram.co.uk>]

Hi Matt,

Thanks for your reply!

I guess what confused me on this was the use of "lo mi karce cu va
zvati" for "my car is there", in Everyday Lojban Lesson 1.  I can't
see why this is "lo" and not "le" - surely the thing that's over there
is a particular car of his that he's thinking of.

Also, is there some kind of problem with jbovlaste?  There is a much
simpler lojban dictionary at
http://members.fortunecity.com/jeroenkuiper/Linguistics/Lojban/Dictionary/aindex.html
which is what I've been having to use, because jbovlaste routinely
fails to find simple searches or returns bizarre ones.  (Search for
"dog" and it'll tell you that place 1 of gerku means "dog in the sense
of delete" (!?); search for "success" and it'll find nothing at all,
even though snada is in the fortunecity dictionary; ask for a word
list and it slumbers).

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Best regards,
 Mark                            mailto:mark@antelope.nildram.co.uk