[lojban-beginners] Re: This question is definitely a beginner's one

[Evgeny Sklyanin <eks2005@gmail.com>]

On 1/23/06, Opi Lauma <opi_lauma@yahoo.com > wrote:

> > How about
> >
> > do pamoi le'i dotco prenu poi mi penmi
> >
> > "You are the first from the set of german persons
> > which I met"
>
> I think it has meaning which differs from the wished 
> one (but I am not sure). Your sentence probably means
> than among germans you are the first one (by some
> unspecified quantity) and I met you.
>
> Moreover, {poi} probably should select form the set
> coming before {poi} subset which has property 
> mentioned after {poi}. And in the given sentence set
> coming before {poi} has already only one element.

The jbofi'e parsing 
 
 

   (₀[do CU {<pa moi> <(₁le'i [{dotco prenu} {poi <mi CU (₂penmi VAU)₂> KU'O}] KU)₁ VAU>}])₀ 

 

seems to support my variant: the descriptor {le'i} extends to the whole tail of the sentence, including the {poi} clause. The argument x2 of {pamoi} is thus "the set of those germans, who I met", not just the set of some germans, if I read it correctly.

 

mi'e .evgenis.