Re: [lojban] Re: lo/loi

[robin <robin@bilkent.edu.tr>]

Pierre Abbat wrote:
> On Monday 03 November 2003 05:18, Mr Ekted wrote:
>
> > I've been working through the lojban lessons, and I have a question about
> > translating the following sentence:
> >
> > "No more than 15% of Buddhists eat meat."
> >
> > The answer page says it's:
> >
> > "su'e pipamu loi budjo cu citka lo rectu"
> >
> > But by my understanding (admittedly new) it seems almost overkill to use
> > loi here rather than lo. "15% of Buddhists" compared to "15% of the mass of
> > all Buddhists"? It seems like there is no distinction of meaning, as there
> > is with le/lo. I can understand being "picky" with meaning to avoid
> > ambiguity, but this case seems to be different. Is there a subtle
> > difference meaning that I am not understanding?
>
>
> "su'e pipamu lo budjo cu citka lo rectu" means "at most .15 of a Buddhist eats 
> meat". That is, there is at least one Buddhist such that no more than .15 of 
> each one eats meat - which doesn't make sense.

Yes - I remember being caught out by that one once!

> A problem with "su'e pipamu loi budjo" is that not just Buddhist people cu 
> budjo - so do Buddhist books, Buddhist temples, and Buddhist ideas.

Hmm - probably I should have written "bujypre".

robin.tr

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