Re: [lojban] re: 3 loaves

["Jorge Llambias" <jjllambias@hotmail.com>]

From: "Jorge Llambias" <jjllambias@hotmail.com>


la maikl cusku di'e

>1. English "A (certain)..." = lebi'u

Yes, I think that is what {bi'u} was invented for.

>2. "another (=one more)": how about "za'u"? or "ny.su'ipa"?

No, {za'u} is "more than one", or "more than x", but
something like {za'u nanba} refers to each of those
more than one loaves of bread, not to the
more-than-one-th loaf that we want to talk about now,
i.e. not the next one after all those we have talked about
already. Same with n+1, with the additional complication
that {nysu'ipa} by itself cannot be used as a quantifier.

>3. so we can't negate ZA'O cmavo using "nabo"??

I was wrong about ZAhOnai, it is grammatical! I just checked
with the Book. It used to be ungrammatical but it has been
fixed. It is still the case however that {nai} is more
restricted than UI. I don't understand how you mean
to use {nabo}.

co'o mi'e xorxes

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