From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Thu Oct 14 14:52:12 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Thu, 14 Oct 2004 14:52:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1CIDW8-0001rr-J0 for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 14:52:12 -0700 Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 14:52:12 -0700 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Beginner texts Message-ID: <20041014215212.GP19824@chain.digitalkingdom.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040722i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 825 X-Approved-By: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org 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: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 10:52:27PM -0700, Robert Griffin wrote: > I was reading the story ( > http://ic2.epfl.ch/~dyke/chrestomathy/goldilocks-txt.html ) and > noticed that the author used the phrase "ro le cribe cu ponse pa > ..." several times. If I didn't know the story, my first > understanding would have been "all the bears owned one..." rather > than "each of the bears owned a..." Nope, that's ro lei cribe. > So I'm wondering, why not use pa'aku? Umm, what does {pa'a ku} have to do with anything? -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!"