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[lojban-beginners] Re: introduction and questions

On Jan 11, 2008 5:23 PM, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
> On Friday 11 January 2008 15:54, Robert Dumond wrote:

> > I take the bus to and from work here in Rochester, MN.  I would like to be
> > able to saying something like "I am taking the number 11 bus to home" or "I
> > am taking the number 3 bus to work".  The closest I've been able to come up
> > with so far is:
> >
> > .i mi klama le briju fu le papa sorprekarce
> >
> > .i mi klama le mi zdadi'u fu le ci sorprekarce
>
> That means "the 11 buses". {le papamoi sorprekarce} means "the 11th bus",
> which, being a tanru, is sufficiently ambiguous to mean "the bus that runs on
> the 11th schedule". You could also say {le me li papa sorprekarce} (the
> number-11-kind-of bus) or {le li papa sorprekarce} (11's bus).
>
  And here's another possibility:  le sorprekarce be me'e  li papa
("the bus named '11'")

                 fi'i
                gejyspa