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

[Dag Odenhall <dag.odenhall@gmail.com>]

la florolf ji do pamoi lo'i jbopre

Why are you all making it so complicated?

On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Michael Turniansky
<mturniansky@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>>>
>>>   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
>>>
>>>   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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