From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Tue Jun 18 10:16:19 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_3_2); 18 Jun 2002 17:16:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 78804 invoked from network); 18 Jun 2002 17:16:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m9.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 18 Jun 2002 17:16:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (204.152.186.175) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 18 Jun 2002 17:16:19 -0000 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17KMbG-000791-00 for ; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 10:17:02 -0700 Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 10:17:01 -0700 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] "The bowl contains a dozen apples and oranges" Message-ID: <20020618171701.GD25348@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban@onelist.com References: <0206181308211J.02401@neofelis> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <0206181308211J.02401@neofelis> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i From: Robin Lee Powell X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=66827819 X-Yahoo-Profile: robinleepowell On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 01:08:21PM -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote: > 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. I would use 'joi', myself. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. le datni cu djica le nu zifre .iku'i .oi le so'e datni cu to'e te pilno je xlali -- RLP http://www.lojban.org/