Subject: Re: [lojban] number - moi

From: Pierre Abbat <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 15:00:48 -0500

On Monday 07 January 2002 14:23, Jorge Llambias wrote:
> la greg cusku di'e
>
> >What is the difference in meaning between
> >
> >PAmoi broda and
> >
> >broda PAmoi
> >
> >???
>
> They are tanru, so they don't have a fixed meaning.
> {pamoi broda} has the place structure of {broda},
> {broda pamoi} that of {pamoi}.
>
> I tend to use {broda pamoi} in the sense of {pamoi be lei broda}.
> There is no equally simple expansion of {pamoi broda}, as far
> as I can see.

Usually they mean the same (the broda which is nth in some sequence), but in 
{da'acimoi rasyslami} what is da'acimoi is not the acid but one of its double 
bonds. In spelled-out dates, {PAmoi} comes after {djedi}: {le zemoi djedi be 
le masti} means "the seventh interval that is a month days long", which is 
nonsense, whereas {le djedi zemoi be le masti} means "the seventh day of the 
month".

phma