Re: mine, thine, hisn, hern, itsn ourn, yourn and theirn (was[lojban] si'o)

[John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>]

Nick NICHOLAS scripsit:
> 
> la pier. ba'o facki la'edi'e:
> 
> > tanru_unit_B_152        :  ME_477  sumti_90  MEhU_gap_465  MOI_476
> 
> Oh my God.
> 
> There is only one explanation for this, which is that Lojban Central
> wanted normal sumti, and not just numbers, to be ordinals.

No, no.  That was a serendipitous side effect.  The point of me+sumti+moi
was to allow full math expressions, not just digit strings, as
numerical selbri.  The typical case is me li ny su'i pa mei
'an n+1-some' or me li ny su'i pa moi 'the n+1th'.

> ... I found this in the refgramm; dunno whether it answers my question,
> but it horrifies me even more:
> 
> ***
> 
> It is perfectly possible to use non-numerical sumti after ``me'' and
> before a member of MOI, producing strange results indeed:
> 
> 11.15)  le nu mi nolraitru
>                 cu me le'e snime bolci
>                 be vi la xel. cu'o
>         The event-of me being-a-nobly-superlative-ruler
>                 has-the-stereotypical snow type-of-ball
>                 at Hell probability.
>         I have a snowball's chance in Hell of being king.

Check out the preceding Example 11.14, which is the normal case.

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