From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Mon Feb 22 18:34:46 2010 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:34:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Njkbl-0008VB-MP for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:34:46 -0800 Received: from cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([75.180.132.120]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1NjkbX-0007tF-Ls for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:34:38 -0800 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=gWeS2Ge_GQ0A:10 a=1QQ-hCzPYDCI31nfKAEA:9 a=fCOKlzyDfqQOVirQ0TzemjIdy9kA:4 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 X-Originating-IP: 71.71.198.100 Received: from [71.71.198.100] ([71.71.198.100:39748] helo=chausie) by cdptpa-oedge03.mail.rr.com (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 2.2.2.39 r()) with ESMTP id 63/14-15851-0BE338B4; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 02:34:24 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chausie (Postfix) with ESMTP id 749CA1428 for ; Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:34:21 -0500 (EST) From: Pierre Abbat To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Only one true dog Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:34:16 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 (enterprise 0.20070907.709405) References: <497698.33534.qm@web32905.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <497698.33534.qm@web32905.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <201002222134.18658.phma@phma.optus.nu> X-archive-position: 2880 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@phma.optus.nu Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Monday 22 February 2010 20:39:58 Cebalo Jason wrote: > coi rodo. > > I was wondering how you can say that there is only one of something. For > example, if I want to say that there is only one dog that really exists, I > thought it might be "da lo pa gerku" or if i want to say fido is the only > true dog "la faido lo pa gerku" but then I realsied tha neither of those > sentences have selbris so I wondered what I needed to add. For "there is only one dog", you can say "ro pa da cu gerku". You can also use "po'o" as Ian said, "pa da po'o cu gerku". "pa po'o da cu gerku" means that one is the only number of dogs that exist, which happens to mean the same thing, but is a strange way of putting it, and in other constructions "pa po'o" or the like may result in a weird meaning. Pierre -- When a barnacle settles down, its brain disintegrates. Já não percebe nada, já não percebe nada.