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[lojban-beginners] Re: Beginner texts
--- Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 10:52:27PM -0700, Robert Griffin wrote:
> > "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.
{pi ro lei cribe} or {lei ro cribe}.
(Also a simple {le ro cribe} would do with the proposed definitions from
<http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=BPFK+Section%3A+gadri>,
because under those definitions a bare {le} is not marked for
distributivity: i.e. it does not have an implicit {ro} in front.)
> > So I'm wondering, why not use pa'aku?
>
> Umm, what does {pa'a ku} have to do with anything?
{pa'a ku} is glossed in the ma'oste as "each respectively", and I
wouldn't be surprised if it appears in some of the ancient teaching
materials too. It was an early attempt to deal with issues of
distributivity. I don't think it works though.
mu'o mi'e xorxes
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