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[lojban-beginners] Re: Beginner texts
On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 10:52:27PM -0700, 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..."
Nope, that's ro lei cribe.
> So I'm wondering, why not use pa'aku?
Umm, what does {pa'a ku} have to do with anything?
-Robin
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