Subject: Re: [lojban] pa'aku ??

From: "Jorge Llambias" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 00:31:05

la camgusmis cusku di'e

> pa'aku BAI* each respectively
> sumti: explicitly marks respective use as in "THEY
> read THEIR (respective) books"
>
>My question is, where is this pa'aku usage mentioned in the book?

Hopefully nowhere!

ko'a tcidu le ko'a cukta pa'aku
They read their book(s) in parallel to doing something else.

{pa'aku} can't really mean "respectively" as far as I can see.

I think it was never settled what these mean:

la djan e la meris cu tcidu le vo'a cukta
le re prenu cu tcidu le vo'a cukta

i.e., when a prosumti refers to several things not massified,
how do we interpret it? Is the first one:

la djan tcidu le vo'a cukta ije
la meris tcidu le vo'a cukta

or is it:

la djan tcidu le cukta pe la djan e la meris ije
la meris tcidu le cukta pe la djan e la meris

?

It doesn't make sense to worry about how to say "respectively"
before we know what the basic case means. Maybe it already
means "respectively" on its own. That's my preference.

co'o mi'e xorxes

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