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From: "And Rosta" <a.rosta@lycos.co.uk>
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Subject: [lojban] Re: What the heck is this crap?
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 00:16:07 -0000
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xod:
> On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, And Rosta wrote:
> 
> > But who on earth would notice if you got the sumti order wrong? None
> > of us are fluent enough to notice in real time speech (are we?). I
> > suppose you're just saying that you want to train yourself into
> > Good Habits, which is very commendable 
> 
> How do you interpret the mapping of "3 le gerku cu batci 2 le nanmu"? The
> same mapping as if I had used "lo"?

Yes. "three of the dogs bite two of the men" (not necessarily the
same two men). "le 3 (le) gerku cu batci le 2 (le) nanmu" =
"each of the 3 dogs bites each of the 2 men", & here the sumti
can be in either order (for general logical reasons).

--And.