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Jorge Llambías wrote:
> --- robin.tr> wrote:
> 
>>Unless my knowledge of Lojban has plummetted further than I thought 
>>since writing that chapter, 
> 
> 
> Oops :)
> 

.u'iga'inai
Well it has been a looong time. Maybe I should go back and re-read what 
I wrote (+ CLL) before answering questions here!

>>you don't want double articles here. {le ci 
>>gerku} is "the three dogs", but {le ci} on its own means "the three" 
>>(e.g. the holy trinity or the three rings of the elf lords), so with {le 
>>ci le gerku} you have two sumti. 
> 
> 
> Actually, it is just one sumti. {le ci} on its own is not a sumti.
> "The three" would be {le ci da}. (Maybe you were thinking of {li ci},
> the number three.)

I was assuming (incorrectly) that {le ci} followed the same rules.

robin.tr

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