Re: [lojban-beginners] Re: Wedding ring engraving

[Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com>]

  The short answer is "no".  "mi'e" assigns what "mi" refers to, but it doesn't itself fill a spot in the sentence.  So what you proposed means "I am Bird, Cat is loved".  What you CAN do is something like "mi no'u la cipni cu prami la mlatu" (or equivalently "la cipni no'u mi prami la mlatu" (you can also use "goi" instead of no'u in these two sentences, as well))

                --gejyspa

On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 7:47 AM, Paul Predkiewicz <paul.predkiewicz@gmail.com> wrote:

Oh i see. I wasn't aware of that.

Well, the reaccuring la remains though, which i somehow find slightly
unaesthetic, so what about my idea of using {mi'e}?
Another reason why i ask if {mi'e} can be used is that {la cipni ku
prami la mlatu} sounds like a very generic statement. Like "The monkey
eats a banana." instead of {mi'e cipni ku prami la mlatu} which kind
of adds the info that cipni is the one saying this and for me it
sounds more like a confession.

On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Lindar <lindarthebard@gmail.com> wrote:
> You're actually perfectly allowed to use {cipni} and {mlatu} as names, but
> you have to terminate them.
>
> {la cipni ku ze'e prami la mlatu}
> {la mlatu ku ze'e prami la cipni}
>
> Perfectly valid Lojban.
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