Re: Lojban is *NOT* broken! Stop saying that! (was Re: [lojban] Re: Vote for the Future Global Language)

[Jonathan Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 6:53 PM, Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:

On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 06:48:38PM -0700, Jonathan Jones wrote:
> 2011/1/6 Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>
>
> > On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 10:06 PM, John E Clifford
> > <kali9putra@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > This is one of those little problems that needs to be solved,
> > > so the the
> > answers: cream, sugar, both or neither are all correct.
> >
> > Hasn't this been solved for ages? The answer is that question-or
> > is neither ".a" nor ".onai". Question-or is "ji", and the four
> > helpful answers are ".enai", "na.e", ".e" and "na.enai". (There
> > are also plenty of true but less than helpful answers, of
> > course, but that's the case for any question.)
> >
> > mu'o mi'e xorxes
> >
>
> So, not {xu do djica lo nu lo kruji .a lo sakta cu nenri lo
> ckafi}, but {do djica lo nu lo kruji ji lo sakta cu nenri lo
> ckafi}?

Correct.  IIRC, this is, in fact, an example in the CLL.

-Robin

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Probably, but I took it from an example of Geekdom, since the ways geeks would treat the English sentence is the exact way I suggested Lojbani's do, as in "cream OR sugar".

I should probably thank .xorxes. for reminding me about {ji}, since at the time I translated the English I was not aware of it. (I really have more of a problem remembering the cmavo than I do the gismu.)

-- 
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