[lojban] Re: jordis

[Martin Bays <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

* Monday, 2004-10-18 at 16:31 -0700 - Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>:

> On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 04:26:34PM -0700, jordi mas wrote:
> > > There needs to be *some* sumti after the "me".  
> > 
> > Thx. OK. As for instance "le prenu". But suppose I
> > don't know whether the said translator is a person or
> > something else, say an alien or something. What's
> > the most generic sumti I could put there? Would "tu"
> > work? Or "da" ? Any sumti meaning "person(s) or
> > thing(s) or anything else" would work fine.
> 
> "da" is most general, then.

But {do me da poi broda} ("you are specific to someone who brodas") is surely
still less precise than {do du da poi broda} - which is logically equivalent
to (but a more flexible construction than) {do broda}.

AFAICT, {me} has a pretty vague meaning. xorxes' entry to the lojban jbovlaste
seems about right though:
    galfi le se li'erla'i sumti lo brivla .i x[1] se sinxa le sumti

which would mean it is true that {mi me da poi vlapau dei} (since I am
signified by {mi}), but it certainly isn't true that {mi du da poi vlapau
dei}.

Martin