Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Thu, 15 May 2003 06:25:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 12-207-28-120.client.attbi.com ([12.207.28.120] helo=xavin.adhockery.net ident=root) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 19GIkA-0008Ay-00 for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Thu, 15 May 2003 06:25:58 -0700 Received: from xavin.adhockery.net (xavin@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by xavin.adhockery.net (8.12.9/8.12.9/Debian-3) with ESMTP id h4FDPds6012618 for ; Thu, 15 May 2003 08:25:39 -0500 Received: (from xavin@localhost) by xavin.adhockery.net (8.12.9/8.12.9/Debian-3) id h4FDPd7S012616 for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Thu, 15 May 2003 08:25:39 -0500 From: xavin@xavin.adhockery.net Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 08:25:39 -0500 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: How to ask "which"? Message-ID: <20030515132539.GA12525@swbell.net> References: <3EC38C31.16621.C3209B@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3EC38C31.16621.C3209B@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i X-archive-position: 308 X-Approved-By: xavin@xavin.adhockery.net X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-original-sender: xavin@xavin.adhockery.net Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners Content-Length: 428 On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 12:46:41PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote: > How does one ask "which" in Lojban? Specifically, something like "which > book do you want?" or "I don't know which class to take". > > Something like "ma poi cukta / makau poi velcli" ? It depends on how you ask it and what you want to know. For example, I think "Which book do you want?" translates to {do djica lenu ponse le cukta be ma}. --Xavier Shirin