[lojban-beginners] Re: broda moi

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Michael Turniansky
<mturniansky@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Do  you find any particular need/aesthetic value in using this
> construct rather than a NOI or GOI (or in the case of selbri use,
> ponse, srana, ckini, steci and the like)?

Those have their uses too, but none of them quite corresponds to "x1
is (sumti)'s x2 by relationship/rule x3"

> It seems like a very odd
> thing to me to take something with no "numerosity" associated with it,
> and combine it with a cardinality aspect.

"moi" is ordinality, not cardinality. "me (sumti) mei" would be harder
to interpret, because there the object would indeed have to relate to
some numerosity. But for ordinals it's easier. The nth object from a
set of objects is the object that corresponds to number n in some
ordering of the objects. Similarly, my object among a set of objects
is the object that corresponds to me by some rule, yours is the one
that corresponds to you, and so on.

mu'o mi'e xorxes