From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sat Sep 24 05:20:22 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sat, 24 Sep 2005 05:20:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1EJ90k-0004cP-JW for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Sat, 24 Sep 2005 05:20:10 -0700 Received: from zproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.162.206]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1EJ90e-0004cB-Dq for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sat, 24 Sep 2005 05:20:10 -0700 Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id k1so213186nzf for ; Sat, 24 Sep 2005 05:20:03 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=s7/BZ8jGelWL+5Ho5IHM754EoifiIGYxX2XVtF8yCJLs/EsmoOk+AxnZTRXEL7IF5Bn+NcFHaJ4gWQbjxC3GDIKu95D5Jtdak1z6WSrA2di4+qWSeHX6kQSOcEFv8Nd9WHh905a6wTLtqdFQZGzXpj3Zgy713EyQYdMHYx7OhMI= Received: by 10.54.114.17 with SMTP id m17mr405266wrc; Sat, 24 Sep 2005 05:20:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.66.3 with HTTP; Sat, 24 Sep 2005 05:20:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <925d1756050924052074f03a7a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 09:20:03 -0300 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jorge_Llamb=EDas?= To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: bi'i/po'u precedence problem In-Reply-To: <200509232248.18263.phma@phma.hn.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis Content-Disposition: inline References: <200509232248.18263.phma@phma.hn.org> X-Spam-Score: -2.5 (--) X-archive-position: 10635 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jjllambias@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On 9/23/05, Pierre Abbat wrote: > I'm translating some verses of Esther. Here's my attempt at the first: > > ni'oni'o la bi'u .axacuiroc. turni la xingug. bi'i la .itiopias. po'u pareze > jecpau > > I ran it through jbofi'e, which said that Ethiopia is 127 provinces. It isn't; > the whole empire is 127 provinces. How do I say this right? {la xingug bi'i la itiopias vu'o no'u lo pareze jecpau} Without {lo} or {loi} it would say that the whole region is each of 127 provinces, i.e. that there are exactly 127 provinces each of which is {la xingug bi'i la itiopias}. mu'o mi'e xorxes To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.