From cowan@locke.ccil.org Sat Feb 5 16:35:37 2000
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Date: Sat, 5 Feb 100 23:27:23 -0500 (EST)
From: John Cowan <cowan@locke.ccil.org>
Subject: Re: 3 loafs

Robert A. McIvor scripsit:

> >> In Loglan, I would have said 'da [pa] gentci ne rebfoa' He/she/it
> >> again-ate a bread-loaf, which put the stress on the repetition of the
> >> eating act rather than the characteristics of the loaf.
> >
> >The Lojban-vocabulary version is "ko'a [pu] refcti pa nabytai". However,
> >I would read that as meaning that the same loaf was eaten for a second
> >time.
> >
> Interesting. I would not interpret Loglan in this way. 'ne rebfoa'
> means 'exactly one loaf of bread', and is quite indefinite as to the bread
> loaf,
> and could in other circumstances be conceivably the same loaf or any other.

Ah, I see the problem. You mean to say that he is eating a loaf (the same
or another) on a *different* occasion, whereas I understood you to mean
that he is eating a loaf on *multiple* occasions, in which case I think
it is clear that the same loaf is meant.

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