From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed Dec 21 06:56:04 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 21 Dec 2005 06:56:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ep5Ns-0006p8-6v for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 06:56:04 -0800 Received: from mx2.mail.ru ([194.67.23.122]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ep5Ni-0006ov-OM for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 06:56:03 -0800 Received: from [212.17.3.19] (port=1064 helo=yanis.vpn.plhs) by mx2.mail.ru with esmtp id 1Ep5Nf-0005Zv-00 for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 17:55:51 +0300 Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 20:55:48 +0600 From: Yanis Batura X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <28214402.20051221205548@mail.ru> To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] lunra MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----------FF61E73976A11D" X-Spam-Score: -2.3 (--) X-archive-position: 2826 X-Approved-By: ybatura@mail.ru X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: ybatura@mail.ru Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners ------------FF61E73976A11D Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am looking at the Moon. {mi ca viska lo lunra} [1] I suspect {le lunra} would be incorrect, in spite of the traditional malglico equations "a = lo; the = le". The question is, how to underline the fact that {lunra} is unique? Because [1] could also mean "I am looking at moons". Certainly we do know that there is only one natural satellite of the Earth; but is there any way to put the load off the shoulders of context/erudition? {mi viska pa lunra} would be clumsy. By the way, is there a selbri for "unique"? mi'e .ianis. ------------FF61E73976A11D Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

I am looking at the Moon.

{mi ca viska lo lunra} [1]

I suspect {le lunra} would be incorrect, in spite of the traditional malglico equations "a = lo; the = le".

The question is, how to underline the fact that {lunra} is unique? Because [1] could also mean "I am looking at moons". Certainly we do know that there is only one natural satellite of the Earth; but is there any way to put the load off the shoulders of context/erudition?

{mi viska pa lunra} would be clumsy.

By the way, is there a selbri for "unique"?

mi'e .ianis.

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