[lojban] Re: skiji

[Robin Lee Powell <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 01:06:26AM +0100, jexOm. wrote:
> 
> Le mercredi, 19 f?v 2003, ? 18:03 Europe/Paris, Pierre Abbat a ?crit :
>
> >>Would there be a better way of saying it? For example, would {le la
> >>.alp. cmana} be better than {le cmana poi se cmene zo .alp.}?
> >
> >I would say {lai .alp}. {le cmana poi se cmene zo .alp} means that
> >"Alp" is the name of a mountain, not a mountain range.
> 
> I think I understand, but if I consider {le cmana} as being plural? Is
> it still a mistake, then?

Actually, I think Pierre is simple wrong about that.  Plurality is
unspecified in le.

But cmana girzu would still be better.

-Robin

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