[lojban-beginners] Re: sevzi kosta

["Adam D. Lopresto" <adam@pubcrawler.org>]

On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, turnip wrote:

> >===== Original Message From "Vid Sintef" <picos.picos@gmail.com> =====
> >On 8/21/07, Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> What would you make of {le ninmu cu lebna le sevzi kosta le nanmu}?
> >> Whose coat is it?
> >
> >Mm, you're right. It's unclear.
> >
> >How about {le ninmu cu cpacu le sevzi kosta}?
> >
> >mu'o mi'e vid
> 
>   All this talk of a sevzi kosta makes me think of some sort of self-aware 
> coat.....

That's my problem, too.  I would expect a {sevzi kosta} to be a particular
kind of coat, some sort of "self-coat".  I wouldn't expect it to refer to a
coat that belongs to someone else mentioned nearby.  Maybe what you want is
{le ninmu cu cpacu le se ponse [be ri] kosta}, but I really don't understand
what you're trying to achieve, and why you think it would work better than
{le ninmu cu cpacu le ri kosta} in the first place.
-- 
Adam Lopresto
http://cec.wustl.edu/~adam/

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