Re: [lojban-beginners] ma poi / noi ...

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 6:28 PM, tijlan <jbotijlan@gmail.com> wrote:
> Which one is better for the interrogative "which ....": "poi" or
> "noi"? For example:
>
> Which car do you use?
> do pilno ma ___ karce

I think "lo karce poi mo" or "lo karce po'u ma" or "lo mo karce" or
"lo ma karce" make more sense. "Which" asks for a restriction, not for
the set to be restricted.

In other words "which car do you use?" means "given that you use a
car, please be more specific about the car that you use", and not "of
all the things that you use, please identify one that is a car".

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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