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



In a message dated 8/25/2001 9:04:46 AM Central Daylight Time,
jjllambias@hotmail.com writes:


The intent of the construction was something else, but the
generalisation of moi does not seem unnatural. (Esperanto does
something very similar btw: mia, via, unua, dua...)


How is this parallel? These are just the adjective forms and work with
everything.  Esperanto has no commitment to an underlying logic in these
matters.

<Is {me ko'a cu'o} something like "x1 is as likely as ko'a [under
conditions x2]"?>

Plausably.  So {memimoi} is "is in my place in the sequence...." maybe "is
saving my place in line" or so.  Not "is mine"