From jcowan@reutershealth.com Wed Oct 02 07:11:08 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_1_1_4); 2 Oct 2002 14:11:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 64043 invoked from network); 2 Oct 2002 14:11:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m9.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 2 Oct 2002 14:11:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO digitalkingdom.org) (204.152.186.175) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 2 Oct 2002 14:11:07 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.05) id 17wkGY-0004PC-00 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Wed, 02 Oct 2002 07:14:18 -0700 Received: from digitalkingdom.org ([204.152.186.175] helo=chain) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 17wkFv-0004Oo-00; Wed, 02 Oct 2002 07:13:39 -0700 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 02 Oct 2002 07:13:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [65.246.141.151] (helo=mail2.reutershealth.com) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 17wkFs-0004Oc-00; Wed, 02 Oct 2002 07:13:36 -0700 Received: from skunk.reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@[10.65.117.21]) by mail2.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA19226; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 10:21:21 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200210021421.KAA19226@mail2.reutershealth.com> Received: by skunk.reutershealth.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 2 Oct 2002 10:09:16 -0400 Subject: [lojban] Re: tu'o du'u (was Re: xoi'a) To: arosta@uclan.ac.uk Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 10:09:16 -0400 (EDT) Cc: fracture@allusion.net (fracture), lojban-list@lojban.org (lojban-list), lojban-out@lojban.org (lojban-out) In-Reply-To: from "And Rosta" at Oct 02, 2002 03:01:06 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-archive-position: 1819 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com Precedence: bulk X-list: lojban-list From: John Cowan Reply-To: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=8122456 X-Yahoo-Profile: john_w_cowan And Rosta scripsit: > So "le gerku" is sensible, because "Which dog?" is a reasonable > response, but "le mamta be mi" is odd because "Which mother of > yours?" is redundant, though it can also be interpreted as > "She (i.e. my mother)", in which case the {le} is not odd. Not so odd; there are plenty of people with more than one {mamta}, including in some sense my own daughter. -- John Cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com www.ccil.org/~cowan www.reutershealth.com "In computer science, we stand on each other's feet." --Brian K. Reid