Re: [lojban] so'i ko'a poi li'o

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm sure this has been asked many times before but a quick search of the
> google groups didn't turn anything up so...
> How is this interpreted?  {mi citka so'i plise poi xunre}
> The way I see it there are three possibilities.
> 1) of the {plise poi xunre} I eat {so'i} of them

That's "mi citka so'i lo plise poi xunre".

> 2) of the {so'i plise} I eat those of them which {poi xunre} (potentially
> not any of them since {so'i} may have happened to select only non xunre
> plise

That's "mi citka ro lo so'i plise ku poi xunre"

> 3) of the {plise} I eat all of them which {poi xunre} which is {so'i} of all
> of them.

That would be "mi citka ro lo so'i plise poi xunre"

The one you have: "mi citka so'i plise (ku) poi xunre" is actually:

4)  Of the apples, I eat many red ones:

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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