Return-Path: Received: from SEGATE.SUNET.SE by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with smtp (Linux Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0t2mvi-0000ZWC; Wed, 11 Oct 95 00:13 EET Message-Id: Received: from listmail.sunet.se by SEGATE.SUNET.SE (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.0a) with SMTP id 8339DB5D ; Tue, 10 Oct 1995 23:13:45 +0100 Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 21:12:22 +0100 Reply-To: ucleaar Sender: Lojban list From: ucleaar Subject: Re: questions X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: Veijo Vilva Content-Length: 1131 Lines: 31 Goran > 1) I seem to remember that somebody used "ko'a poi du ko'e" form. Is it > possible? Parser doesn't like it (I guess it doesn't think du is > a selbri). Is this legal sumti? Is it gendra? I've used it. I thought {du} is a selbri. > 2) I tried to find a word for "set", and the closest I could find were > te porsi (which implies that the set has some ordering relation > defined) and se cmima (which does not imply that the elements in x2 > are the complete enumeration of x1's contents). Is there a better > choice? {se cmima} & {mei} seem closest. > 3) How does one say "any two of the man, the woman and the kid"? That > is, how does one extract n elements from the ce-specified set? The > best I could think of is "re lo cmima be le nanmu kuce le ninmu kuce > le verba". Is there a way of doing it without cmima? Something with > LU'A? I tried "re lu'a ny. ce ny. xire ce vy.", but parser won't > allow that. I've wondered that too. > P.S. BTW, And, yes, that ought to have been NItcion. I don't even know > why I wrote the way I did... .uanai mi na jimpe i me toe jimpe --- And