Subject: [lojban] Re: Honorifics (was: RE: Re: The Any thread)

From: Robert LeChevalier <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 14:29:03 -0500

At 07:20 PM 3/3/03 -0600, Jordan DeLong wrote:
> > Professor Smith might be doi smit po'u la ctuca .io
> > Mister is then la nanmu .io
> > Ms. is then la ninmu .io
> > Mrs. is then la fetspe .io
>
>Shouldn't Mrs. have a .ionai? Didn't "Mrs. John Doe" originally
>imply that she was the property of John?

Why should it matter what it originally meant? What matters is what it 
means to the speaker and listener.

lojbab

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