[lojban-beginners] Re: Question around beginner's chapter 4

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

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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