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

[Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 5:44 AM, Dag Odenhall <dag.odenhall@gmail.com> wrote:

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".

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  The reason that solution was avoided (well, I didn't avoid it, I actually used it, filling in the x3), was that without the x3 it leaves unanswered "The first lojbanist to do what?" The first lojbanist standing in line at the movies? The first one to answer the question that timos asked? etc.
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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:

>>
>> ÂCould be all sorts of interesting ways:
>>
>> la florolf ji do pamoi le'i cilre be fi la lojban [lo detri] Â seems
>> to me to be the most straightforward.

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