Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Thu, 14 Oct 2004 00:06:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bay3-f5.bay3.hotmail.com ([65.54.169.5] helo=hotmail.com) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CHzZs-0005DP-9U for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Wed, 13 Oct 2004 23:59:08 -0700 Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Wed, 13 Oct 2004 22:53:00 -0700 Received: from 68.164.68.169 by by3fd.bay3.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 05:52:27 GMT X-Originating-IP: [68.164.68.169] X-Originating-Email: [mugglesnsquibs@msn.com] X-Sender: mugglesnsquibs@msn.com From: "Robert Griffin" To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Beginner texts Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 22:52:27 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 14 Oct 2004 05:53:00.0389 (UTC) FILETIME=[0FFF2150:01C4B1B2] X-archive-position: 822 X-Approved-By: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org 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: mugglesnsquibs@msn.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners Content-Length: 380 I was reading the story ( http://ic2.epfl.ch/~dyke/chrestomathy/goldilocks-txt.html ) and noticed that the author used the phrase "ro le cribe cu ponse pa ..." several times. If I didn't know the story, my first understanding would have been "all the bears owned one..." rather than "each of the bears owned a..." So I'm wondering, why not use pa'aku? Thanks, bobgrif.