From rlpowell@csclub.uwaterloo.ca Fri Apr 06 09:19:07 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_1); 6 Apr 2001 16:19:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 61799 invoked from network); 6 Apr 2001 16:19:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 6 Apr 2001 16:19:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca) (129.97.134.11) by mta1 with SMTP; 6 Apr 2001 16:19:04 -0000 Received: (from rlpowell@localhost) by calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) id MAA14516 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Fri, 6 Apr 2001 12:26:19 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 12:26:18 -0400 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] ma'i Message-ID: <20010406122617.E2509@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Mail-Followup-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com References: <0104060146290E.11949@neofelis> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <0104060146290E.11949@neofelis>; from phma@oltronics.net on Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 01:43:46AM -0400 X-eGroups-From: Robin Lee Powell From: Robin Lee Powell On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 01:43:46AM -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote: > Chapter 10, 8.3: > le verba mo'i ri'u cadzu le bisli ma'i vo'a > The child walks toward her right on the ice. > > {ma'i} is in selma'o BAI so grammatically it adds a place to {cadzu}. But > semantically it's modifying {ri'u}. So what does this mean: > > le verba cadzu le bisli ma'i vo'a Assuming you meant le verba cu cadzu le bisli ma'i vo'a I would say it means that the child walks on the ice ey is on, as opposed to the ice I am on. -Robin -- http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. Information wants to be free. Too bad most of it is crap. --RLP