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Re: [lojban] Klingon proverbs in Lojban



...Never knew that. Nice.

On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 6:56 AM, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
On Tuesday 09 August 2011 01:21:34 Ian Johnson wrote:
> The only real counterargument I see to this is that the universe of
> discourse can have a temporal scope, so that {lo pa re'u nu mi klama le
> zarci} could refer to the first time I went to the store *today* even
> though I've gone to the store hundreds of times in the past. This seems
> like a weak counterargument to me because of the inability to conveniently
> specify the temporal scope of the universe of discourse (which is something
> of a problem anyway, to be frank).

PA ROI can be followed by a sumti: "mi za'ure'u le djedi cu klama le zarci".

Pierre
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