From nicholas@uci.edu Sat Aug 25 19:26:52 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: nicholas@uci.edu X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2); 26 Aug 2001 02:26:52 -0000 Received: (qmail 29728 invoked from network); 26 Aug 2001 02:26:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 26 Aug 2001 02:26:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO e4e.oac.uci.edu) (128.200.222.10) by mta3 with SMTP; 26 Aug 2001 02:26:52 -0000 Received: from [128.195.186.34] (dialin53b-22.ppp.uci.edu [128.195.186.162]) by e4e.oac.uci.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA15441 for ; Sat, 25 Aug 2001 19:26:51 -0700 (PDT) X-Sender: nicholas@e4e.oac.uci.edu Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 19:29:09 -0700 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: jai fi'o lojbo fe'u spuda (was: RE: mine, thine, hisn, hern, itsn ourn, yourn and theirn From: Nick Nicholas 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.