[lojban] Re: jordis

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

On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 03:02:38AM -0700, jordi mas wrote:
> > "da" is most general, then.
> 
> OK, thanks. 
> 
> would the following work? which one is less malglico?
> 
> le da poi pinfu na me do 

Ow ow ow ow.

Ummm.

The thing which is a prisoner and is not among the things that are
you?  I guess?

Note that this is a sumti as a whole, not a sentence.  If you meant
for it to be a sentence, you want "da poi pinfu na me do", which is:

    There exists a thing which is a prisoner and is not among the
    things that are you.

I would switch to English the instant I saw somone say either of
those in IRC.

> do na me le da poi pinfu

Here the "le" is illegal; da is already a sumti.

    There exists at least one prisoner; you are not among those
    things that are that thing(s).
    
Note that for every purpose I can imagine this is exactly the same
as "do na pinfu".

> le da poi pinfu zo'u do na me

That sentence is unrecoverably non-grammatical.  Perhaps you meant:

    da poi pinfu zo'u do na me da
    
Which means exactly the same thing as the previous sentence.

I've got an idea: why don't you tell us what problem you're actually
trying to solve, and we'll tell you how to do it without causing
experienced Lojbanists to suffer headaches.  :-)

-Robin

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