From xod@sixgirls.org Tue Aug 28 14:11:17 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: xod@reva.sixgirls.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2); 28 Aug 2001 21:11:15 -0000 Received: (qmail 30481 invoked from network); 28 Aug 2001 21:05:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 28 Aug 2001 21:05:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO reva.sixgirls.org) (64.152.7.13) by mta3 with SMTP; 28 Aug 2001 21:05:50 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by reva.sixgirls.org (8.11.6/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f7SL5ol28374 for ; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 17:05:50 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 17:05:49 -0400 (EDT) To: Subject: The Knights who forgot to say "ni!" Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Invent Yourself Everything we have said about ka also goes for ni! le ni mi prami The amount I love Oh really?? le ni ce'u prami The amount of loving le ni prami ce'u The amount of being loved It seems the designers planned two ways to use ka and ni. le ka mi prami my lovingness (phantom ce'u in prami1, none anywhere else) le ke ce'u prami lovingness A later generation with a hardline attitude revolted against the first form. The sumti co-placed with a ce'u got moved to a controversial 2nd place (be), or the phrase gets rewritten explictly (pe): le ka mi prami --> le kamprami be mi = le kamprami pe mi However we run into trouble with ni, because it already has a 2nd place! Therefore it must be le nilprami pe mi The amount I love Excuse me if this completely obvious to most of you. ----- "It is not enough that an article is new and useful. The Constitution never sanctioned the patenting of gadgets. [...] It was never the object of those laws to grant a monopoly for every trifling device, every shadow of a shade of an idea, which would naturally and spontaneously occur to any skilled mechanic or operator in the ordinary progress of manufactures." -- Supreme Court Justice Douglas, 1950