On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Oren <get.oren@gmail.com> wrote:

Hm. Well is there anything grammatically wrong with =A0{ l= e pa palku }? How would you interpret it? Is there any other use for this c= onstruct?

=A0{ le pa moi palku } just seems a bit long.<= div>

I guess to be explicitly naming, I could say:

{ la papalku } "(My pants named) one-pant"
{ l= a palkupa } "(My pants named) pant-one"

On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 21:56, Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.c= om> wrote:
=A0No,. no no. =A0That doesn't work. =A0"le pa pluta" ONLY m= eans "the one
route" =A0"le (or lo) =A0pamoi pluta" is the correct one to = use. =A0Don't
forget that moi contains within it an x2 that says exactly what set it
is the nth of (e.g."the stuff I'm writing down") and an x3 th= at says
how you are ordering it (e.g. "chronologically by the time/date I'= m
writing them down) =A0You can leave them out of course, if context makes it obvious, which in this case it certainly does.
=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 --gejsypa

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On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 9:36 PM, Oren <get.oren@gmail.com> wrote:

> da'i let's suppose I was writing a = diary in lojban, and kept track of some
> very mundane things, like what route I took to the store, or what pant= s I
> was wearing. Some of these may have a chronological sequence that I mi= ght
> refer to and internally keep track of my routes/pants. In english, I m= ight
> say I took "the first route" to the store, while wearing my = "third" pair of
> pants.
> da'isa'u let's say I don't want to use =A0{ pa mai } f= or "first" because it
> may not actually be first chronologically, but only the first that i m= ention
> in my diary. Would it make sense to just say
> { le pa pluta }=A0"That first route; Route 1"
> { le re pluta }=A0"That second/other route; Route 2"
> { le pa palku }=A0"Those first pants; Pants 1"
> { le re palku }=A0"Those second/other pants; Pants 2"
> ... which la/le/lo/li should I use for this? Is there a better way? >

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