From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sun Feb 14 09:21:13 2010 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sun, 14 Feb 2010 09:21:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ngi9g-0001hD-Lf for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Sun, 14 Feb 2010 09:21:13 -0800 Received: from cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([75.180.132.121]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ngi9R-0001bE-7y for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sun, 14 Feb 2010 09:21:04 -0800 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=dwibzsvnOO8A:10 a=FxWVj23HSQV0NuN1oZQA:9 a=u0BP3VYd_3qBydyEis8S_pkrZoIA:4 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 X-Originating-IP: 71.71.198.100 Received: from [71.71.198.100] ([71.71.198.100:40081] helo=chausie) by cdptpa-oedge02.mail.rr.com (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 2.2.2.39 r()) with ESMTP id 42/AA-02874-2F0387B4; Sun, 14 Feb 2010 17:20:50 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chausie (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BAE827B2 for ; Sun, 14 Feb 2010 12:20:50 -0500 (EST) From: Pierre Abbat To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: "which of you is the first to..."? Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 12:20:47 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 (enterprise 0.20070907.709405) References: <4B77F0FD.3080908@perpetuum-immobile.de> In-Reply-To: <4B77F0FD.3080908@perpetuum-immobile.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <201002141220.48195.phma@phma.optus.nu> X-archive-position: 16930 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@phma.optus.nu Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Sunday 14 February 2010 07:47:57 Timo Paulssen wrote: > coi rodo > > vensa on the irc just asked for the best way to ask "among florolf and you, > who was the first lojbanist?" and he came up with > > ma poi me do ce la florolf ku'o cu du pamoi le jbopre > > and that's too long for my taste. > After considering a few different words to make it work (ji, zmadu/traji, > moi) i came up with the still rather flawed > > xu la florolf do zmadu lo ni clira lojbo binxo > > because it only works with two people, which vensa immediately noticed. > > What would be a good way to express that? ma pamoi be do ce la florolf. be'o jbopre or even shorter ma jbopre co pamoi do ce la florolf. mu'omi'e .pier. -- Don't buy a French car in Holland. It may be a citroen. 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.