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



pc:
> In a message dated 8/25/2001 1:46:13 AM Central Daylight Time, cowan@ccil.org
> No, no. That was a serendipitous side effect. The point of me+sumti+moi
> was to allow full math expressions, not just digit strings, as
> numerical selbri. The typical case is me li ny su'i pa mei
> 'an n+1-some' or me li ny su'i pa moi 'the n+1th'.
>
> Serendipity (nowadays, srilankaosity, I suppose) is the knack of falling on
> GOOD things by accident. Nothing to do with this case.

ta me lo spaji me'u mei = "that is a set of surprising cardinality"

Is it not a good thing to be able to say that thus?

--And.