[lojban] Re: preposition whose object is a vocative phrase

["Michael Turniansky" <mturniansky@gmail.com>]

On Jan 6, 2008 10:33 PM, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
lani
>
> This looks like a malgli xelfanva of something ("remoi barda", for instance,
> is supposed to mean "second largest"), but "mu'o" makes no sense at all, and
> the writer obviously meant something like "ji'i".
>
  Actually, it's obvious that their intent was "...with ("kansa") over
("mu'o") a billion people"

>I threw the sentence at jbofi'e and was surprised to see it parse.
What does "fi'o kansa mu'o le
> gigdo prenu" mean?

   Of course, the actual meaning is "....Accompanyingly.  Over to you,
one billion people."

            --gejyspa


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