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[lojban-beginners] Re: Story time



On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 10:05:58PM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> 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)

It's `pe'.

`po' is like "inseperably associated with".  Example {le birka po
me}.  Except you basically never use it, because all cases where
it makes sense you could just use a bridi place and be more specific:
{le birka be mi}.

-- 
Jordan DeLong
fracture@allusion.net

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