From pycyn@aol.com Wed May 30 13:42:53 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: Pycyn@aol.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 30 May 2001 20:42:52 -0000 Received: (qmail 85834 invoked from network); 30 May 2001 20:42:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 30 May 2001 20:42:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-r05.mx.aol.com) (152.163.225.101) by mta3 with SMTP; 30 May 2001 20:42:08 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo-r05.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v30.22.) id r.b4.1653c949 (3757) for ; Wed, 30 May 2001 16:42:02 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 16:42:02 EDT Subject: Re: [lojban] Request for grammar clarifications To: lojban@yahoogroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_b4.1653c949.2846b51a_boundary" X-Mailer: AOL 6.0 for Windows US sub 10519 From: pycyn@aol.com --part1_b4.1653c949.2846b51a_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 5/30/2001 3:13:09 PM Central Daylight Time, jcowan@reutershealth.com writes: > The paradigm sentence for the current "me" is "Melchior is one of > the [le] Three Kings." > as {la melkior cu me le ci nolraitru}, I suppose (up to choice of "king") so {la melckior cu du pa le ci nolraitru}, a tad longer, logically non-problematic, glico but even English is logical occasionally. {la melkior cu cmima lu'i le ci nolraitru} (why isn't "is a member of" a cmavo?) longer still but still logically OK and clear, unlike {me}. --part1_b4.1653c949.2846b51a_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 5/30/2001 3:13:09 PM Central Daylight Time,
jcowan@reutershealth.com writes:



The paradigm sentence for the current "me" is "Melchior is one of
the [le] Three Kings."



as {la melkior cu me le ci nolraitru}, I suppose (up to choice of "king")
so {la melckior cu du pa le ci nolraitru}, a tad longer, logically
non-problematic, glico but even English is logical occasionally.  
{la melkior cu cmima lu'i le ci nolraitru}  (why isn't "is a member of" a
cmavo?) longer still but still logically OK and clear, unlike {me}. --part1_b4.1653c949.2846b51a_boundary--