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And Rosta scripsit:
> I remember xorxes discovering this weird locution. As you say,
> the basic idea of "X's Y" being done as "the Xth Y" is an attractive
> one, but I can't work out how {me ko'a moi} gets us to that meaning.
> I'd have guessed it was {mo'e ko'a moi}. What's wrong with {mo'e
> ko'a moi}? And how can {me ko'a moi} parse, given that {me ko'a}
> is a selbri and {moi} requires somesort of MEX argument? (I know
> this was explained first time round, but I can neither remember
> nor guess what the explanation was.)
It's a hack, that's all. ME+sumti+MOI really has little or nothing
to do with ME; I just needed something without introducing a new cmavo,
and that parsed.
The intention is that the sumti should have a numerical value, in
Lojban's extended sense of "numerical". E.g. me li re su'i ny. boi moi
means "n+2th". Ordinary MOI without ME can only use a number or letteral
string, not an arbitrary MEX, still less a non-MEX representation of
a numerical value.
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