Re: [lojban] simple question

[Bob LeChevalier <lojbab@lojban.org>]

At 05:50 PM 9/27/04 -0400, you wrote:
>I want to (know how to) say, for example, "I want to read a book".
>
>Does "mi cukta tcidu djica" mean that?

It could, but it could mean other things (I want a book-reader; I am a 
book-readerish wanter (of something else))

>Is something like "mi djica le nu mi tcidu lo cukta" more usual?

Yes.  That is how I would say it.

lojbab

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Bob LeChevalier, Founder, The Logical Language Group
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