Re: [lojban] pro-sumti question

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 01:22:06PM -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> On Tuesday 02 July 2002 21:23, Jordan DeLong wrote:
> > If I say
> >
> > 	le gerku cu jersi le mlatu
> > 	<they> cu tatpi binxo
> >
> > What can I use for <they>?  I don't think "rera" or "reri" is quite
> > right...  "ri .e ra" is a little bit lame, but the only thing I can
> > think of.  Are there cmavo for this that I dunno about?
> 
> I recently thought of using "ru", which is quite rarely used (8 vs. 99 for 
> "ra" and 132 for "ri"), for this. By the time one has to refer to something 
> unrecently enough mentioned to be called "ru", one either repeats it or uses 
> a letter or something from the ko'a series.

What's wrong with "la'e di'u"?

-Robin

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