From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Thu Oct 12 05:32:13 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 12 Oct 2006 05:32:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GXzi5-0005Oh-TF for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 05:30:52 -0700 Received: from py-out-1112.google.com ([64.233.166.177]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GXzhQ-0005Nn-5P for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 05:30:31 -0700 Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id w49so36696pyg for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 05:30:04 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=UmOORw0IzvWb6LyGvUm6o055MGzX42Lp0khssOuUUK63GoakvitEtJwotyECdRAav5nmYpmy37UUU/36p42a2E0gq5Wv7fw/qyv9JT3YoiDRYkNRl3lACkjEtfeK7gCRA49H6eRSfJTylp+itzISa0kKLTsRYpMcsFFWlwRqzC8= Received: by 10.35.82.15 with SMTP id j15mr3138241pyl; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 05:30:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.22.14 with HTTP; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 05:30:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <925d17560610120530u7ea8fb20ye82834acd5b820b6@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 09:30:03 -0300 From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jorge_Llamb=EDas?=" To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: "among which" In-Reply-To: <200610112329.34340.phma@phma.optus.nu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200610112329.34340.phma@phma.optus.nu> X-Spam-Score: -2.4 (--) X-archive-position: 12691 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 10/12/06, Pierre Abbat wrote: > On Wednesday 11 October 2006 22:30, Yanis Batura wrote: > > What is the most elegant way to express "among which" in Lojban? > > > > Example: "There are many books by X, among which the most famous are Y, Z > > and T" > > xy. finti so'i cukta noi .ybu .e zy .e ty. misrai lu'o ke'a I suggest {jo'u} instead of {.e}, otherwise it says that Y is the most famous, Z is the most famous, and T is the most famous. If you don't have a predicate like "most famous" in the sentence, you can use {me} for "among" as in: xy finti lo so'i cukta noi ybu jo'u zy jo'u ty me ke'a X wrote many books; Y, Z and T among them. (Here {.e} would be OK too.) 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.