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Re: mine, thine, hisn, hern, itsn ourn, yourn and theirn (was[lojban] si'o)



In a message dated 8/24/2001 5:23:38 PM Central Daylight Time,
jjllambias@hotmail.com writes:


>Still, how do I say "mine"?

{memimoi}


Aside from being ill-formed, how does this work?  {mimoi}  (is my-th in
sequence quence of ....) is not a sumti so {me} can't mean "is a referent of
" and {memi} ("is a referent of {mi}" is not a number.  so the whole is an
idiom made from fairy spiderwebs: not a particularly Lojbanic procedure, but
one that offers immediate solutions to all manner of problems: take a couple
of words you aren't using at the moment and run them together, declaring them
to do what is needed. There are gereat piles of MEX, for example, that we
never use; maybe that is where all the {ka} and {du'u} solutions really are.