Re: [lojban] Error in DAG-CLL? 4.6

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Wednesday 09 February 2011 19:46:12 Ian Johnson wrote:
> I disagree by way of example. At one point I and some others wanted to
> translate "nth person" in the sense of narrative perspective. We came up
> with {miblisri}, {donlisri}, and {ko'a zei lisri}, meaning first, second,
> and third person narrative, respectively. Not the abstract concepts, mind
> you:
> .i mu'a la'o gy if on a winter's night a traveler gy noi ke'a cukta cu
> donlisri
>
> I don't see a better solution than this anywhere; the "nth" solution just
> seems malgli, and I don't know of any other ideas in general.

"mibma'o" and "donma'o" are already known to jbofi'e, so I 
think "mibylisri", "donlisri", and "fo'arlisri" are good. ("fo'e" and "fo'i" 
also have rafsi, presumably so that one can talk about fourth- and 
fifth-person pronouns. I know that some languages have a fourth person; I 
don't know about fifth.)

Pierre
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