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Re: [lojban] Re: The strange case of "le me by moi"

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Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: The strange case of "le me by moi"
From: Pierre Abbat <phma@webjockey.net>
Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2004 20:58:32 -0500
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On Sunday 04 April 2004 21:17, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 06:50:52PM -0500, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> > It means "the one belonging to by".
>
> Seems like you didn't take 'moi' into account, unless you mean "the
> first belonging to by"?

The construction {me KOhA moi} was introduced to provide a way to say "This is 
mine" without having to say "This is my broda". The construction {ME <sumti> 
MOI} was put into the grammar to be able to say "a snowball's chance in 
hell". At least that's the example in Chapter 18.

phma
-- 
li fi'u vu'u fi'u fi'u du li pa

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