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Re: [lojban] Exact translation of the pronoun "we"



On 11/7/05, Yanis Batura <ybatura@mail.ru> wrote:

Dear Lojbanists,


is there an EXACT translation of English pronoun "we"

(the semantics of which is something like:

me, the speaker, and AT LEAST one other person somehow related to me)?


Well, there's {mi}, there's {mi'a}, there's {mi'o} (speaker + listener/addressee), and there's {ma'a} (speaker + listener + third person(s)). I'm trying to think of a situation where one says "we" in English & cannot pin the meaning down to one of these four...

mu'o mi'e komfo,amonan