From phma@webjockey.net Sun Jan 20 05:20:49 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_1_3); 20 Jan 2002 13:20:49 -0000 Received: (qmail 75215 invoked from network); 20 Jan 2002 13:20:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.172) by m10.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 20 Jan 2002 13:20:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO neofelis.ixazon.lan) (208.150.110.21) by mta2.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 20 Jan 2002 13:20:48 -0000 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id F40203C550; Sun, 20 Jan 2002 08:20:47 -0500 (EST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: Subject: Re: [lojban] standard Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 08:20:45 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <000e01c1a1b3$a1ceff40$8f2aca3e@oemcomputer> In-Reply-To: <000e01c1a1b3$a1ceff40$8f2aca3e@oemcomputer> X-Spamtrap: fesmri@ixazon.dynip.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <02012008204523.01718@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com From: Pierre Abbat Reply-To: phma@webjockey.net X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=92712300 On Sunday 20 January 2002 07:55, G. Dyke wrote: > I'm not sure what the import of this post is, but here goes : > > In German, people do not say "I am cold" or "I am well", with "I" in the > nominative (subject), but "mir ist kalt/gut", in the dative. This is > because lojban is not the first language to include standards ; we would > probably say {xamgu mi} and {lenku tu'a mi). Comments? "I am well" is not "xamgu mi"; it is "mi kanro". "I am cold" is "lenku tu'a mi" if you are talking about the air temperature, but "mi lenku" if you have a to'e fever. phma