Subject: Re: Enemy [Was: [lojban] Request for grammar clarifications

From: Invent Yourself <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 04:35:50 -0400 (EDT)

On Mon, 28 May 2001, Rob Speer wrote:

> On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 01:47:03AM +0000, Jorge Llambias wrote:
> >
> > la pycyn cusku di'e
> >
> > >On "We have me the enemy and they are us,"
> > [...]
> > >"We have met the enemy and they are ours"
> > [...]
> > >It won't work in Lojban with the same economy and spelling it all out
> > >loses the punch.
> >
> > Well, I think I'll try it anyway:
> >
> > i mi'o ba'o penmi le bradi i za'a ri me mi'o moi
> >
> > i mi'o ba'o penmi le bradi i za'a ri me mi'o
>
> "... and he pertains to us."
>
> Could you give me a simple reason why that is preferrable to {ri du mi'o}?

zo'o za'a rivbi le ka me zo du

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