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Re: [lojban] la lojbo kurji



On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Jonathan Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/10/7 Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>
>> On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 2:32 PM, .alyn.post.
>> <alyn.post@lodockikumazvati.org> wrote:
>>
>> >  .i mi ba tavla fo la lobjan. de'i lo ro djedi
>>
>> "lo ro djedi" is not a date, you want "ca" not "de'i".
>>
>> And "ca ro (lo) djedi", unless you are content to do it at some single
>> point in time valid for all days.
>
> "A side effect of the above is that in xorlo, if you mean "one bear",
> consider actually saying "pa cribe". It's ever so much more specific. xorxes
> points out that to refer to one bear, "lo pa cribe" is actually a bit
> better; "pa cribe cu broda" means that exactly one cribe in the whole world
> brodas, which is often not what you want. We (those of us that have actually
> been using xorlo for the last few months; there are at least half a dozen
> active users on #lojban now) have found that context is almost always
> sufficient, however."

Is that supposed to be related to what I was saying? I'm not sure if
you are quoting that as support or as disagreement.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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