[lojban-beginners] Re: Beginner texts

[robin <robin@bilkent.edu.tr>]

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

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