[lojban] Re: jordis

[Jorge "Llambías" <jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar>]

--- Martin Bays wrote:
> {le ba'e mi speni}, {ba'e le mi speni} and {le mi ba'e speni}
> correspond
> respectively to "*my* wife", "*my wife*" and "my *wife*".

{le ba'e mi speni} and {le mi ba'e speni}, yes.

But {ba'e le mi speni} doesn't really have a direct correspondence
in English. It's more like "*the* wife of mine". {ba'e} emphasizes 
the very next word, not the following phrase. Since the 
distinguishing feature of {le} is specificity, that's what {ba'e} 
would be emphasizing here: not just any old wife of mine but *the* 
one(s) I have in mind.

mu'o mi'e xorxes




	
		
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