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





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."

Using «la» equates to the capitalization of a name, not to anything like "the". So «la cipni ku/cu prami la mlatu» means "Bird loves Cat" (but without the tense of English "loves"). Either of «ku» or «cu» can be used in this case. They differ grammatically, but the result is essentially the same here. It's not especially generic at all, although each argument can refer to any entity actually called that. 

stevo

 
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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