[lojban-beginners] Re: precise definition of cmene

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 01:03:05PM -0600, melissa@fastanimals.com wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Bob Slaughter wrote:
> > Look this one up, and see if it also conveys your intentions:
> > 
> > la dinas. gerku pisu'oroda
> > 
> > Realize that the second sumti is a *number*.
> 
> I'm having trouble parsing this.  I've only been studying Lojban for a
> few days.

"Dina is a dog with species at least all of them".  More or less.  I
can't understand what the 'pi' is doing there, and ro may be an error
for re.

    la dinas. gerku su'o re da

means "Dina is a dog with at least two species".

-Robin

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