From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Wed Feb 25 12:10:38 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 25 Feb 2004 12:10:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.30) id 1Aw5Mc-0001bq-JN for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 12:10:38 -0800 Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 12:10:38 -0800 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: precise definition of cmene Message-ID: <20040225201038.GJ11507@digitalkingdom.org> References: <20040225145144.4D3CC41F4@sodor.mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 523 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, Feb 25, 2004 at 01:03:05PM -0600, melissa@fastanimals.com wrote: > > On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Bob Slaughter wrote: > > Look this one up, and see if it also conveys your intentions: > > > > la dinas. gerku pisu'oroda > > > > Realize that the second sumti is a *number*. > > I'm having trouble parsing this. I've only been studying Lojban for a > few days. "Dina is a dog with species at least all of them". More or less. I can't understand what the 'pi' is doing there, and ro may be an error for re. la dinas. gerku su'o re da means "Dina is a dog with at least two species". -Robin -- Me: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** I'm a *male* Robin. "Constant neocortex override is the only thing that stops us all from running out and eating all the cookies." -- Eliezer Yudkowsky http://www.lojban.org/ *** .i cimo'o prali .ui