[lojban-beginners] Re: I'm... My name's...

[m.kornig@sondal.net]

Selon Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>:

> On Monday 25 June 2007 15:10, m.kornig@sondal.net wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is there a difference in meaning between
> > the two sentences {mi'e tim.} and {tim.
> > cmene mi}? Are they both correct? Both
> > used?
>
> {tim. cmene mi} is grammatical for no obvious reason;

Pierre, I guess you mean "is not grammatical", don't you?

> a bare cmene has no
> clear meaning,

You can say {mi'e tim.} and {coi tim.} and {co'o tim} though,
can't you?

In these examples the cmene would be "bare", i.e. there are no
articles. Still these sentences seem to have a clear meaning.

Martin