Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Thu, 14 Oct 2004 13:22:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from manyas.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr ([139.179.30.24]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CIC7M-0000ST-B6 for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 13:22:32 -0700 Received: by manyas.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr (Postfix, from userid 72) id D93B526F87; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 22:21:06 +0300 (EEST) Received: from [139.179.111.109] (ppp109.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr [139.179.111.109]) by manyas.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD80926F67 for ; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 22:21:05 +0300 (EEST) Message-ID: <416ED3EF.3010704@bilkent.edu.tr> Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 22:30:55 +0300 From: robin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040914 X-Accept-Language: en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Beginner texts References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed X-archive-position: 824 X-Approved-By: robin@bilkent.edu.tr 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: robin@bilkent.edu.tr Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners Content-Length: 874 Robert Griffin wrote: > 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? "ro le" means "each one individually". If you mean that the bears, taken as a whole, owned one something-or-other, you'd need to massify "cribe" by using "lei" instead of "le". robin.tr -- "His youngest brother, Tendzin Choegyal, says one of the Dalai Lama's greatest finds of recent years was super-glue -- second, in fact, only to the more recent discovery of super-glue remover." Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin