Subject: Re: [lojban] le medomoi e le memimoi e le memi'omoi

From: "Jorge Llambias" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 14:33:08

la robyspir cusku di'e

>Wouldn't it be more consistent with the usual way of saying 'my' and 'your' 
>in
>Lojban to use {me lemi}, {me ledo}, etc.?

But that is not grammatical.

>I really can't picture ownership as a sequence.

We already have {se ponse} for ownership. "Possesives" have a
much wider use, I just meant a correspondence.

Let's put it the other way: what does {me mi moi}, which is
grammatical, mean? Doesn't it have to mean "x1 is mine" or
something very similar to that?

co'o mi'e xorxes

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