Re: [lojban-beginners] Tenses and Event Contours

[Remo Dentato <rdentato@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 5:19 AM, volcpitar <apeal@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> 3. Where does it say that the meaning of MOI can go beyond expressions
> of time and include such meanings as " mi moi = "mine"?

I'm still learning so I've not yet gone through the lojban text of the email.
But let me comment on this, I had the same question the first time I
saw it and I made a sort of explanations.

It's not {mimoi} (it's not even legal) that is "mine" but is {memimoi}.
I understand it piecewise:

{memi} is a selbri meaning { x1 is among those related to me in some aspect }

and so

{memi moi} is {x1 is the n.th (i.e. a generic one) among those related to me}

which is one of the meaning of "mine".

remod.

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