From phma@webjockey.net Thu Sep 26 18:37:23 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_1_1_4); 27 Sep 2002 01:37:23 -0000 Received: (qmail 74937 invoked from network); 27 Sep 2002 01:37:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m11.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 27 Sep 2002 01:37:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO neofelis.ixazon.lan) (208.150.110.21) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 27 Sep 2002 01:37:22 -0000 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id 2697B3C478; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 21:37:20 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] paroi ro mentu Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 21:37:19 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: In-Reply-To: X-Spamtrap: fesmri@ixazon.dynip.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <02092621371902.18442@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com From: Pierre Abbat X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=92712300 On Thursday 26 September 2002 19:00, Jorge Llambias wrote: > What do you all think of this: > > le plini cu mulcarna paroi ro mentu > > 1- Is {mulcarna} good for "x1 makes a full turn around x2 > in direction x3"? Sounds fine to me. > 2- The problem with {paroi ro mentu} is that the quantifiers > are in the wrong order. The alternative {ro da poi mentu zo'u > le plini cu mulcarna paroi da} is too longwinded and requires > forethought. Any ideas? {le plini cu mulcarna paroi ro mentu} is correct. {ro da poi mentu zo'u le plini cu mulcarna paroi da} is also correct but sounds funny; if {le} were replaced with {lo} in both sentences, the second would mean "For every minute, there is a planet that completes a turn during it," whereas the first would mean "There is a planet that completes a turn every minute." phma