[lojban-beginners] pamoi le'i dotco prenu poi ...

[Yanis Batura <ybatura@mail.ru>]

23.01.2006, 15:23 Evgeny Sklyanin wrote:



>  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.

But we know that jbofi'e isn't *official* in the sense of final
verdict. Perhaps it'd be better to consult the CLL?

mi'e .ianis.