Re: [lojban] "The bowl contains a dozen apples and oranges"

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 01:08:21PM -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 June 2002 12:57, And Rosta wrote:
> > How does Lojban say that? There are 12 pieces of fruit in the bowl.
> > Some are apples, some are oranges.
> 
> le gankabri cu vasru 12 najnimre ja plise. This of course does not imply that 
> it contains at least one apple and at least one orange, but that's the way 
> one would normally say it. Or {najnimre jonai plise} if you wanted to say 
> explicitly that none of them is both an apple and an orange.

I would use 'joi', myself.

-Robin

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