Subject: Re: [lojban] paroi ro mentu

From: Pierre Abbat <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 21:37:19 -0400

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