From cowan@ccil.org Sun Oct 28 19:22:41 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: cowan@mercury.ccil.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_0_1); 29 Oct 2001 03:22:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 15927 invoked from network); 29 Oct 2001 03:22:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by 10.1.1.220 with QMQP; 29 Oct 2001 03:22:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mercury.ccil.org) (192.190.237.100) by mta2 with SMTP; 29 Oct 2001 03:22:40 -0000 Received: from cowan by mercury.ccil.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 15y30l-0000RB-00 for ; Sun, 28 Oct 2001 22:22:51 -0500 Subject: Re: [lojban] a construal of lo'e & le'e In-Reply-To: <20011028220016.B1607@twcny.rr.com> from Rob Speer at "Oct 28, 2001 10:00:16 pm" To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 22:22:51 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL66 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: X-eGroups-From: John Cowan From: John Cowan X-Yahoo-Profile: johnwcowan Rob Speer scripsit: > On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 10:06:02AM -0500, John Cowan wrote: > > > {pa stedu cu stedu ro remna}? > > > {pazu'i stedu ro remna}? (My understanding of zu'i is that this is > > > equivalent to the previous one.) > > > > Those both work, and indeed better, for "ponse" is not truly appropriate. > > We don't *own* our heads (and carry them about in our briefcases!); we > > *have* heads. > > This is what John said which contradicts what And said. I was quite wrong to say these work; I was too concerned with the point about stedu rather than ponse as the selbri, and missed the quantifier order! -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org Please leave your values | Check your assumptions. In fact, at the front desk. | check your assumptions at the door. --sign in Paris hotel | --Miles Vorkosigan