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

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On 1/24/06, Alex Joseph Martini <alexjm@umich.edu> wrote:
>
> Would it be correct then to say "This is the first of my books that I
> have sold." as {ti pa moi lo mi cukta lo ka mi vecnu ce'u} ?

Yes.

Of course, this doesn't say what exactly the sorting criterion
you are using is, only that it is related to your selling them. The most
obvious one I can think of is when you sold them, the second most
obvious is for how much. It could be made more precise:

   {ti pa moi lo mi cukta lo ka mi vecnu ce'u ca ma kau}
   "This first among my books by I sold them when"
   {ti pa moi lo mi cukta lo ka mi vecnu ce'u fo ma kau}
   "This first among my books by I sold them for how much"

And again, this doesn't really say whether "first" means earliest
or latest in one case, or least or most expensive in the other case.
The price of infinite precision is infinite verbosity...

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