[lojban] Re: "which of you is the first to..."?

[Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
> On Sunday 14 February 2010 07:47:57 Timo Paulssen wrote:
>> coi rodo
>>
>> vensa on the irc just asked for the best way to ask "among florolf and you,
>> who was the first lojbanist?" and he came up with
>>
>> Â ma poi me do ce la florolf ku'o cu du pamoi le jbopre
>>
>> and that's too long for my taste.
>> After considering a few different words to make it work (ji, zmadu/traji,
>> moi) i came up with the still rather flawed
>>
>> Â xu la florolf do zmadu lo ni clira lojbo binxo
>>
>> because it only works with two people, which vensa immediately noticed.
>>
>> What would be a good way to express that?
>
> ma pamoi be do ce la florolf. be'o jbopre
> or even shorter
> ma jbopre co pamoi do ce la florolf.
>
> mu'omi'e .pier.
> --

  Could be all sorts of interesting ways:

la florolf ji do pamoi le'i cilre be fi la lojban [lo detri]   seems
to me to be the most straightforward.

For a real ridiculous one, try this:
ge'i la florolf ce'o do gi ra sece'o ri cu porsi lo prula'i be fi lo
nu cilre fi la lojban

For a less ridiculous one, try:
ma cu porsi lo  prula'i be fi lo nu cilre fi la lojban la folrolf ce do
            --gejyspa


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