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

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

OK, I can see why you avoided this solution, neither of you is the
absolute first jbopre. But I'd argue the x3 makes it possible, and
leaving it zo'e we can infer it means something like "beginning
studies before the other".

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Dag Odenhall <dag.odenhall@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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