Subject: RE: [lojban] RE:{goi} addendum

From: "And Rosta" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 03:22:51 +0100

Jorge:
> la pycyn cusku di'e
> 
> >The reason for the rule on double quantifiers that Lojban uses is almost
> >certainly the enormous difficulty within logic otherwise of saying 
> >something
> >like "Three men came into the saloon. Two of them well to the bar. One of
> >these ordered a lime rickey."
> 
> One way of saying this without getting into trouble is:
> 
> le ci nanmu cu nerkla le barja i le re le ci nanmu cu klama
> le barjyjbu i le pa le re le ci nanmu cu cpedu lo'e ladru

Or 
{le ci nanmu cu nerkla le barja 
i le re ra cu klama le barjyjbu 
i le pa ra cu cpedu lo'e ladru} 
or 
{le ci nanmu cu nerkla le barja 
i le re le go'i cu klama le barjyjbu 
i le pa le go'i cu cpedu lo'e ladru} 
?

IOW, pc's sentences seem dead easy to render simply.

--And.