From phma@oltronics.net Tue Jun 05 17:41:54 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 6 Jun 2001 00:41:53 -0000 Received: (qmail 43680 invoked from network); 6 Jun 2001 00:41:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 6 Jun 2001 00:41:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO neofelis.ixazon.lan) (207.15.133.36) by mta3 with SMTP; 6 Jun 2001 00:41:52 -0000 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id 7E0833C642; Tue, 5 Jun 2001 20:28:37 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: phma@oltronics.net To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] multiple choice questions Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 20:23:02 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.29.2] Content-Type: text/plain References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01060520283706.19849@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com From: Pierre Abbat On Tue, 05 Jun 2001, pycyn@aol.com wrote: >> i do djica ma poi cmima lo birje ce lo vanju >> > (you want what, which is a member of the set composed of beer and wine?) >> > >> > .i xu do nelci di'u >> >> That's a great solution, IMO. Very lojbanic. >> > > > >It looks like a literal translation from a really bad English phrase-book. >{ji} is lojbanic (well, it certainly isn't any other language). But if I ask which of five things you want, and you answer with four conjunctions, I may be pondering for a minute or two figuring out that you want coffee and sugar, or tea and cream, but not both, and it doesn't matter whether you get orange juice. If I ask using the member-of-set construct, and you answer with a list, I know what you want immediately. phma