In a message dated 1/14/2002 5:08:20 PM Central Standard Time, ragnarok@pobox.com writes:>mi me le ci nolraitru = I am Caspar, Melchior, or Balthazar. Yes, but {le} means that the speaker gets to pick which one -- and this seems to be the likely one at this time (within the octave of Epiphany). And can you think of another kingly trio off hand? <>> poi du as meaning that po'u means poi du. >That means that it is semantically (but not syntactically) >interchangeable. This is a little bit of a strange statement for you to be making, seeing as you are the one who doesn't clarify po'u except to say 'note that it means poi du' and state its selma'o (unless this oversight was fixed in the print version).> "Means the same as" doesn't mean "behaves the same as" -- as the selma'o clearly shows. What more should have been said? |