[lojban-beginners] Re: POM: set the course as I said

[Cortesi <dcortesi@mindspring.com>]

On Jan 31, 2007, at 10:56 AM, Jorge Llambías wrote:

> {me'imoi} is "other-than-last". I don't see how that is better than  
> {pamoi}
> when there are only two things being compared: "the Green Men take  
> you"
> vs. "our own ships find us". There is only a first and a last, so
> "other-than-last"
> is the same as "first". As you say, "before" seems better, but because
> Lojban conflates "before" and "in the past" it could also be  
> confusing.

per the cmavo list, {me'i} is PA3 "less than" so {me'imoi} = less- 
than-as-an-ordinal-value
which seems like it should mean "Always-first".
Whatever other ordinal number you might have in
mind, {me'imoi} is less-than it! This being able to make any
PA into an ordinal is cool... but it makes me wonder
what {me'imei} (less-than-as-cardinal) would mean. Always-least?