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Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 11:09:47 +0200
From: Philip Newton <philip.newton@gmail.com>
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Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Asking for connectives, or "Do you have any brothers or sisters?"
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On 9/24/05, Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/24/05, Philip Newton <philip.newton@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Would a suitable way of asking "Do you have any brothers or sisters?"
> > be {pau do se bruna gi'i se mensi}? (That is, something along the
> > lines of "please fill in the appropriate connective for the relations
> > 'x is a brother to you' and 'y is a sister to you'".)
>
> Yes.

ki'e .xorxes.

> Of course you could also just ask {xu do se tunba}.

Oops, completely forgot about that.

> Even the single {ge} would be ungrammatical.
[...]
> You could always answer with an afterthought connective even
> if the question was posed in forethought mode though.

Ah, thanks.

mu'o mi'e .filip.
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