From rob@twcny.rr.com Tue May 01 00:35:56 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rob@twcny.rr.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_2); 1 May 2001 07:35:55 -0000 Received: (qmail 78580 invoked from network); 1 May 2001 06:04:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 1 May 2001 06:04:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mailout3-0.nyroc.rr.com) (24.92.226.118) by mta1 with SMTP; 1 May 2001 06:04:50 -0000 Received: from mail1.twcny.rr.com (mail1-0 [24.92.226.74]) by mailout3-0.nyroc.rr.com (8.11.2/RoadRunner 1.03) with ESMTP id f415oU017321 for ; Tue, 1 May 2001 01:50:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from riff ([24.95.175.122]) by mail1.twcny.rr.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-59787U250000L250000S0V35) with ESMTP id com for ; Tue, 1 May 2001 01:29:21 -0400 Received: from rob by riff with local (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 14uSiQ-0000BW-00 for ; Tue, 01 May 2001 01:28:50 -0400 Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 01:28:50 -0400 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] le medomoi e le memimoi e le memi'omoi Message-ID: <20010501012850.B682@twcny.rr.com> Reply-To: rob@twcny.rr.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.17i In-Reply-To: ; from jjllambias@hotmail.com on Tue, May 01, 2001 at 05:07:04AM +0000 X-Is-It-Not-Nifty: www.sluggy.com From: Rob Speer On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 05:07:04AM +0000, Jorge Llambias wrote: > i lu mi'u le me ba'e mimoi sei la mapypre cu cusku li'u > ... > > The idea is that if you sort things by people, those that correspond > to you are yours, those that correspond to me are mine, and so on. > I think it is very useful to have a way of saying "x1 is yours", > "x1 is mine", etc. Comments? Wouldn't it be more consistent with the usual way of saying 'my' and 'your' in Lojban to use {me lemi}, {me ledo}, etc.? I really can't picture ownership as a sequence. -- Rob Speer