From pnewton@gmx.de Thu May 15 07:27:12 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Thu, 15 May 2003 07:27:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from postman1.arcor-online.net ([151.189.0.187] helo=postman.arcor.de) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 19GJhP-0001sp-00 for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Thu, 15 May 2003 07:27:11 -0700 Received: from hamwpne1 (pc1-oxfd1-5-cust27.oxfd.cable.ntl.com [62.254.134.27]) (authenticated bits=0) by postman.arcor.de (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h4FER873027645 for ; Thu, 15 May 2003 16:27:09 +0200 (MEST) From: "Philip Newton" Organization: datenrevision GmbH & Co. OHG To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 16:26:35 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: How to ask "which"? Message-ID: <3EC3BFBB.21571.18C732B@localhost> Priority: normal In-reply-to: <20030515141721.90771.qmail@web20511.mail.yahoo.com> References: <3EC38C31.16621.C3209B@localhost> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body X-archive-position: 310 X-Approved-By: pnewton@gmx.de X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-original-sender: pnewton@gmx.de Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners la xorxes cu cusku di'e > la filip cusku di'e > > > How does one ask "which" in Lojban? Specifically, something like "which > > book do you want?" or "I don't know which class to take". > > > > Something like "ma poi cukta / makau poi velcli" ? > > That's one possibility. I prefer {le cukta poi mo} or > just {le mo cukta}. And what would be possible answers? "The red one" is probably simply {xunre} (as in {le cukta poi xunre} or {le xunre cukta}). "That one over there"? Perhaps {(le cukta poi) va zvati} ? mu'o mi'e .filip. -- filip.niutyn.