Re: [lojban] The strange case of "le me by moi"

[Pierre Abbat <phma@webjockey.net>]

On Sunday 04 April 2004 18:23, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> A sentence including a construct like
>
>     le me by moi
>
> appears in Alice.  I have no idea what it means.

It means "the one belonging to by". One occurrence is
i ro le kelci cu kelci ca le mintu gi'e na denpa le me ky moi
in which {ky} stands for {le kelci}. The English says "waiting for turns", so 
this apparently means "K's turn".

phma

-- 
li fi'u vu'u fi'u fi'u du li pa


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