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

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

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 12:44 PM, Mark <mark@antelope.nildram.co.uk> wrote:
> 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.

That was before xorlo. xorlo is the proposal to change the meaning of le and lo.

> 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).

I know. Robin says search is hard. Sorry.

-Eppcott