Re: [lojban-beginners] Re: coi rodo .i preti lo pamoi sumti i.

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Sunday 07 November 2010 16:06:23 Jonathan Jones wrote:
> Or, to more closely reflect the order of the English:
>
> la.sam. seme'e lo mi pendo ku gerku

This sounds a bit strange. You're adding a place for something which has a 
name to the predicate "gerku": "Sam is a dog with my friend being named." I'd 
say "la sam. noi pendo mi cu gerku".

> On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Jonathan Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com> wrote:
> > lo mi pendo me'e la.sam. gerku

That should be "me'e zo .sam.". Otherwise you're saying that Sam himself is a 
name, which he isn't. Also "me'e zo sam" is adding an extra place 
to "gerku": "My friend is a dog named Sam". If you mean "My friend named Sam 
is a dog", that's "lo mi pendo be me'e zo .sam. gerku".

Pierre
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