From lojban-out@lojban.org Wed Feb 19 16:12:40 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 00:12:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 85345 invoked from network); 20 Feb 2003 00:12:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m5.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 20 Feb 2003 00:12:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO digitalkingdom.org) (204.152.186.175) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 20 Feb 2003 00:12:39 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.12) id 18leKN-0002fd-00 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 16:12:39 -0800 Received: from digitalkingdom.org ([204.152.186.175] helo=chain) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 18leKK-0002fK-00; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 16:12:36 -0800 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 19 Feb 2003 16:12:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.12) id 18leKE-0002fA-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 16:12:30 -0800 Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 16:12:30 -0800 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: skiji Message-ID: <20030220001230.GB30112@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <200302191803.10389.phma@webjockey.net> <2788FF73-4467-11D7-B4A2-003065E00134@free.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2788FF73-4467-11D7-B4A2-003065E00134@free.fr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i X-archive-position: 4109 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk X-list: lojban-list X-eGroups-From: Robin Lee Powell From: Robin Lee Powell Reply-To: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=116389790 X-Yahoo-Profile: lojban_out On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 01:06:26AM +0100, jexOm. wrote: > > Le mercredi, 19 f?v 2003, ? 18:03 Europe/Paris, Pierre Abbat a ?crit : > > >>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? Actually, I think Pierre is simple wrong about that. Plurality is unspecified in le. But cmana girzu would still be better. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** I'm a *male* Robin. .i le pamoi velru'e zo'u crepu le plibu taxfu .i le remoi velru'e zo'u mo .i le cimoi velru'e zo'u ba'e prali .uisai http://www.lojban.org/ *** to sa'a cu'u lei pibyta'u cridrnoma toi