Re: TECH: RE: do djica loi ckafi je'i tcati

[Jorge Llambias <jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU>]

> I think that what is really needed by the speaker is a certain state
> of affairs:  I need that (there be a box big enough to hold my house
> and I have it).  Notice that this statement is not about any
> particular box, nor does it presuppose the existence of a suitable
> box.  The form of the sentence in Loglan or Lojban would be such that
> it would be clear that it was unreasonable to ask "which box?", which
> is not true if the surface form of the English is followed.
>
>                                                 --Randall Holmes

Totally agree. I would also like to say it in Lojban as simply as I can
in English.

Of course I can make the long claim: {mi nitcu le nu mi ponse lo tanxe}

Is there some way to make it shorter?  e.g. {mi nitcu xe'e tanxe}

(BTW, it is hard to ask "which box?" in Lojban.)

Jorge