From nicholas@uci.edu Fri Aug 24 15:55:38 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: nicholas@uci.edu X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2); 24 Aug 2001 22:55:38 -0000 Received: (qmail 27673 invoked from network); 24 Aug 2001 22:55:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 24 Aug 2001 22:55:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO e4e.oac.uci.edu) (128.200.222.10) by mta3 with SMTP; 24 Aug 2001 22:55:38 -0000 Received: from localhost (nicholas@localhost) by e4e.oac.uci.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA20752; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:55:34 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: e4e.oac.uci.edu: nicholas owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:55:34 -0700 (PDT) X-Sender: To: Cc: Nick NICHOLAS Subject: Re: mine, thine, hisn, hern, itsn ourn, yourn and theirn (was[lojban] si'o) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Nick NICHOLAS cu'u la xorxes. >>Still, how do I say "mine"? >{memimoi} Yeah, I noticed this in your _Alice_, and was going to comment, but didn't. (.i .oi lerci tcika caku) I think this is self-consciously experimental, and I don't like it. In the context in Alice you used it (The Duchess took Alice's arm in hers, I think), Lojban offers a much nicer solution: zu'i pe mi Better than {zo'e pe mi}, because it says, not just "something of mine", but "something of mine --- and yes, you've guessed correctly what." -- == == == == == == == == == == == == == == == == == == == Nick Nicholas, Breathing {le'o ko na rivbi fi'inai palci je tolvri danlu} nicholas@uci.edu -- Miguel Cervantes tr. Jorge LLambias