[lojban] Re: NMS: glosses and YOU

["Jorge Llambías" <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On 3/28/06, MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com <MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com> wrote:
>
> The English glosses are not the primes.  They're the English reflections of
> the primes.

Right, but unless I misunderstood something, the claim is that every
language has a word or idiomatic phrase that corresponds to each
prime.

> One of the glosses for YOU is THOU, thus YOU should be understood as
> singular: tú or usted.  I'd go with the meaning that these two share.

But then Spanish has no word or idiomatic phrase for that prime.
The prime is the common content of "tú" and "usted", removing from
them what they don't share.

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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