Re: jai fi'o lojbo fe'u spuda (was: RE: mine, thine, hisn, hern, itsn ourn, yourn and theirn

[Nick Nicholas <nicholas@uci.edu>]

cu'u la and.

>fo loi se jinvi be mi ge la xorxes so'a roi gi mi ji'i so'e roi ku drani

>se nu mi lifri loi nu la xorxes jinvi kei kei so'i so'i be mi carmi zdile
>joi melbi joi toldunku

*stares long enough to work this out*

Oh, you mean:

.i fo loi se jinvi be mi
  nu'ige la xorxes. so'aroi
  nu'ugi mi ji'e so'eroi ku
drani

(You need termsets for that. Hope you can elide that nu'u!)

.i nu mi lifri loi nu la xorxes. jinvi
  so'iso'i ke carmi zdile joi melbi joi toldunku ke'e be mi

(What you actually said was more like:

.i so'iso'i lo pe mi carmi zdile joi melbi joi toldunku
cu nu mi lifri loi nu la xorxes. jinvi

Which I guess makes sense too. Only {pe} prefixes, and I'd put in the
article just to be safe.)

Nick Nicholas,  TLG, UCI, USA.   nicholas@uci.edu    www.opoudjis.net
"Most Byzantine historians felt they knew enough to use the optatives
 correctly; some of them were right." --- Harry Turtledove.