From jorge@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xxx Mon Apr 26 17:10:13 1999 X-Digest-Num: 126 Message-ID: <44114.126.738.959273824@eGroups.com> Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 21:10:13 -0300 From: "=?windows-1252?Q?Jorge_J._Llamb=EDas?=" Actually, i'm kindof curious why lojban doesn't just have some simple words >like 'each' and 'all together' -- maybe as variations of 'ro', which seems >ambiguous in this sense, since its definition says 'each/all'... ??? But it does. {ro} is not ambiguous at all, it means "each", even if it is not clear from the gloss. "All" in English is ambiguous between "each" and "all together", but {ro} is not. "All together" in Lojban is {piro}, which might seem cryptic at first, but that's how it is. >then you could say 'ro'a le mlatu' meaning they all did something together, >and 'ro'u le mlatu' meaning they did something individually... And so you can: {ro le mlatu} means each of the cats individually, (and by the way, is exactly equivalent to simply {le mlatu}. {piro lei mlatu} means they all did something together, and should be equivalent to {lei mlatu}, even though the Book says otherwise. >But i guess these would be equivalent to 'lei mlatu' and 'le mlatu' >respectively????? yes?? :) Yes! >co'o doi do noi da poi zasti... That should be {co'o doi do noi [ke'a] du da poi zasti}, o just {co'o doi do noi [ke'a] zasti}. You didn't have any selbri to go with {noi}. co'o mi'e xorxes