Message-Id: <199510102040.QAA11313@locke.ccil.org>
Date:         Tue, 10 Oct 1995 21:12:22 +0100
Reply-To: ucleaar <ucleaar@UCL.AC.UK>
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From: ucleaar <ucleaar@UCL.AC.UK>
Subject:      Re: questions
To: John Cowan <cowan@LOCKE.CCIL.ORG>
Status: OR

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

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