On 1/21/06, Yanis Batura <ybatura@mail.ru> wrote:
[1] "You are a German person."
{do dotco prenu}
[2] "You are the first German person I ever met."
{do dotco prenu [???]}
{poi} cannot be used here, because {dotco prenu} isn't a sumti.
{du} seems a bit over-mathematical, and has an ill fame as malglico.
What is the most elegant way to translate [2] to Lojban, then? Or
there isn't?
How about
do pamoi le'i dotco prenu poi mi penmi
"You are the first from the set of german persons which I met"
The point is that {moi} creates a new selbri with the place structure
x1 pamoi x2 x3 = x1 is the first member of the set x2 ordered by the rule x3
mi'e .evgenis.