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

From: And Rosta <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 13:48:54 +0100

Xorx:
#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?

It means something both more and less general than "x1 is mine".
Clearly it does not mean "x1 belongs to me". But it means more
than "x1 corresponds to me", because "mi noi" requires that x1
belong to an ordered set with some unambiguous mapping from
this set to another. Noneless, most usages of predicative
"mine" that I can think of off the top of my head would translate
either by "se ponse me" or by "mi moi".

--And.