From phma@webjockey.net Fri Nov 22 05:39:19 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_3_0); 22 Nov 2002 13:39:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 3176 invoked from network); 22 Nov 2002 13:39:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m13.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 22 Nov 2002 13:39:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO neofelis.ixazon.lan) (208.150.110.21) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 22 Nov 2002 13:39:18 -0000 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id 559763C477; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 08:39:10 -0500 (EST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Newbie says hi Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 08:39:05 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: In-Reply-To: X-Spamtrap: fesmri@ixazon.dynip.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0211220839050U.01930@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com From: Pierre Abbat X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=92712300 On Thursday 21 November 2002 08:28, Jorge Llambias wrote: li'o > Also, you mean {la'u} instead of {lu'a}. There's a typo in > the Book in the section where this construction is explained. > I would rather say {poi tcadu be'a la xamburg va lo'e karce > cacra}. I think what he was trying to say is {tcadu be'a la xamburg. ce'e le pa karce cacra}. {pe'e} is a modifier indicating that a conjunction joins two termsets; {ce'e} joins two terms into a termset. Here's an example of a termset: cire cilre carce jarco ce'e reci cilce carce cu jarco .i cire cilce carce jarco cu jarco reci cilce carce .ije'i reci cilce carce cu se jarco cire cilce carce jarco? In the first bridi, there are 32 showers and 23 carts. In the second, there are 32 showers, and each shows 23 carts, but there could be anywhere from 23 to 736 carts. In the third, there are 23 carts, each of which is shown by 32 showers, but there could be anywhere from 32 to 736 showers. phma