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To: John Cowan <cowan@snark.thyrsus.com>
Cc: Nick Nicholas <nsn@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au>, nsn@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au,
        lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu
Subject: Re: The dreaded word "only" 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 13 Jan 92 17:09:26 EST."
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 92 20:27:13 +1100
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X-From-Space-Date: Thu Jan 16 07:02:01 1992
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John Cowan once again proves his all-round dudeliness by coming up with one
of the nicer solutions to the "only" problem:

>        ro da poi cevni du la .alax.
>        all x1s which are-gods are-identical-to Allah

Which transforms to:

la alex. du roda poi cevni
.i la alex. du ro cevni
.i la alex. romei lei cevni

and this last, PREDICATIONALIST :) expression is, I feel, the "real"
solution.


Granted, the phrase

{la djordj. cu romei lei darxi be leri tamne bei leri nazbi}

is not as elegant as

{la djordj du roda poi darxi leri tamne leri nazbi}

So (Once again, I've "oopsed") there are two "real solution". Something
there's been a lot of in out language lately...

Idiom spreads like wildfire in le jbonai, and I've just gotten me a beauty.
Thanks, John.

Nick