From phma@webjockey.net Tue Jun 18 10:08:29 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_3_2); 18 Jun 2002 17:08:28 -0000 Received: (qmail 55815 invoked from network); 18 Jun 2002 17:08:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m4.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 18 Jun 2002 17:08:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO neofelis.ixazon.lan) (208.150.110.21) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 18 Jun 2002 17:08:28 -0000 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id 018E23C496; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 13:08:23 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: lojban Subject: Re: [lojban] "The bowl contains a dozen apples and oranges" Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 13:08:21 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: In-Reply-To: X-Spamtrap: fesmri@ixazon.dynip.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0206181308211J.02401@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com From: Pierre Abbat X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=92712300 On Tuesday 18 June 2002 12:57, And Rosta wrote: > How does Lojban say that? There are 12 pieces of fruit in the bowl. > Some are apples, some are oranges. le gankabri cu vasru 12 najnimre ja plise. This of course does not imply that it contains at least one apple and at least one orange, but that's the way one would normally say it. Or {najnimre jonai plise} if you wanted to say explicitly that none of them is both an apple and an orange. phma