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Re: [lojban] "which" word
In a message dated 5/12/00 10:35:23 AM CST, graywyvern@hotmail.com writes:
<< stidi zo xomoi .i mu'a cusku lu le xomoi to beti toi cu broda
li'u (Maybe: "Which-th" as in "Which-th (of these), is (something)?")
>>
Remind me what is wrong with {mo} here, except it forces left grouping when
you might want something rightward. {xomoi} assumes (in words. if not in
fact) that every concept has a place in a well-ordering so that we can call
it up by number. While the assumption is trivially true in most set
theories, it is practically false for any language, so this is a rather
misleading suggestion.