From lojban-out@lojban.org Wed Feb 19 16:09:30 2003 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_3_4); 20 Feb 2003 00:09:30 -0000 Received: (qmail 2852 invoked from network); 20 Feb 2003 00:09:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 20 Feb 2003 00:09:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO digitalkingdom.org) (204.152.186.175) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 20 Feb 2003 00:09:29 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.12) id 18leHJ-0002ap-00 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 16:09:29 -0800 Received: from digitalkingdom.org ([204.152.186.175] helo=chain) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 18leH7-0002Zp-00; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 16:09:17 -0800 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 19 Feb 2003 16:09:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from postfix3-1.free.fr ([213.228.0.44]) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 18leGp-0002ZG-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 16:09:00 -0800 Received: from free.fr (nas-cbv-4-62-147-140-242.dial.proxad.net [62.147.140.242]) by postfix3-1.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56E91C0B1 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 01:08:58 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 01:06:26 +0100 Subject: [lojban] Re: skiji Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v551) To: lojban-list@lojban.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis In-Reply-To: <200302191803.10389.phma@webjockey.net> Message-Id: <2788FF73-4467-11D7-B4A2-003065E00134@free.fr> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.551) X-archive-position: 4107 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jexOm@free.fr Precedence: bulk X-list: lojban-list X-eGroups-From: jexOm. From: jexOm. Reply-To: jexOm@free.fr X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=116389790 X-Yahoo-Profile: lojban_out Le mercredi, 19 fév 2003, à 18:03 Europe/Paris, Pierre Abbat a écrit : > On Wednesday 19 February 2003 17:05, jexOm. wrote: >> >> {.i le nu mi pu klama le cmana poi se cmene zo .alp. tezu'e mi te >> skiji loi >> snime} > > "That I went to the mountain called Alp for my purpose is skiing on > snow." > Events of going to mountains don't ski on snow. Right :-) Thanks! >> Would there be a better way of saying it? >> For example, would {le la .alp. cmana} be better than {le cmana poi se >> cmene zo .alp.}? > > I would say {lai .alp}. {le cmana poi se cmene zo .alp} means that > "Alp" is > the name of a mountain, not a mountain range. I think I understand, but if I consider {le cmana} as being plural? Is it still a mistake, then? Thanks again, Jérôme.