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Re: ciska bai tu'a zo bai
- To: lojbab@access.digex.net
- Subject: Re: ciska bai tu'a zo bai
- From: Logical Language Group <lojbab>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jul 1994 00:30:40 -0400
LL> la frank. ga'inai rapdarxi la djordj. ga'i
LL> Frank [my superior] beats George [my inferior]
LL>
LL> > And you can't
LL> > use it to talk, for example to someone of your same high rank about someo
LL> > of low rank, and things like that.
LL>
LL> Again, I see no problem, although (as noted in earlier postings) the
LL> addressee must be made explicit in the sentence:
LL>
LL> la lojbab. ga'inai malpensi doi ga'icu'i
LL> Lojbab, that scumbag, is a poor-quality thinker, O-my-equal.
Am I missing something here? In one case ga'inai results in "my superior"
while in the other it results in "that scumbag". This doesn't exactly seem
consistent.
lojbab