[lojban-beginners] Re: Beginner texts

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

On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 03:30:08PM -0700, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> --- Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 10:52:27PM -0700, Robert Griffin wrote:
> > > 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.

Oh goth.  That's just... "disgusting" comes to mind.  "panra" has
nothing to do with "each respectively", nor with distributivity.

-Robin

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