Subject: [lojban] Re: tu'o du'u (was Re: xoi'a)

From: John Cowan <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 10:09:16 -0400 (EDT)

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.

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