[lojban-beginners] Re: Story time

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 09:54:02PM -0500, der Mouse wrote:
> >> la bardivuar. vi le mi zdani cu barja
> > Bardivuuar is a bar near my house.
> 
> So I am confused in thinking that this places "mi" in the x1 place of
> "zdani", thereby speaking of the speaker as a home/house/etc?  Could
> you clarify how this bridi is constructed?

It's syntactic sugar.  :-)


"le mi zdani" == "le zdani po mi" == "the house associated with me"

(or is it 'pe'?  I can never remember)

-Robin

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