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

From: "Jorge Llambias" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 22:47:33

la rab spir di'e cusku

> > >On "We have me the enemy and they are us,"
> > >"We have met the enemy and they are ours"
> > 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."

That's the old meaning of {me}. The current meaning (according
to The Book, see pg. 98) would give "...and they are us".

>Could you give me a simple reason why that is preferrable to {ri du mi'o}?

In the above example, just for the wordplay. In general, {du} and
{me} mean practically the same thing when the sumti has a single
referent (as in this case). Both {me lo broda} and {du lo broda}
are basically longwinded ways of saying {broda}.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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