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

From: Nick Nicholas <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 19:29:09 -0700

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. [email-masked] www.opoudjis.net
"Most Byzantine historians felt they knew enough to use the optatives
correctly; some of them were right." --- Harry Turtledove.