Date:  Tue, 23 Dec 1997 18:18:05 -0500 (EST)
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From: "=?iso-8859-1?Q?Jorge_J._Llamb=EDas?=" <jorge@INTERMEDIA.COM.AR>
Subject:      Re: xor questions (was Re: indirect Qs (was Re: On logji lo
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To: John Cowan <cowan@LOCKE.CCIL.ORG>
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Lojbab:
> In addition, there are sets with sets as members
>Nested lu'X could be useful in building a set with "1 from column A and 1
from
>column B".

So you agree that {lu'a lu'i lu'i ci gerku} is a set of dogs, not a dog?
Whereas {lu'a lu'i ci gerku} is a dog? If you do agree, then you
must also agree that {lu'a lu'i} is not equivalent to plain {lu'a}.


>>>"Would you like coffee, tea, milk, or water?"
>>
>>It would be interesting to see that question in Lojban. There we have the
>>additional problem of the intentionality of djica, of course.
>
>My intent, correcting for Cowan's comment re lu'a, would be something like
>do djica tu'a pa po'u pa lu'a le ckafi ce le tcati ce le ladru
>              ^ma, I mean

i lo selpinxe ki'e

co'o mi'e xorxes