Re: lo'e cinfo and lo'e -antelope

John Cowan <[email protected]> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 09:32:50 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.science.linguistics.lojban.jboske
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And Rosta scripsit:

> * How on earth would you say "Lions have four legs"? According to you,
> {lo'e cinfo cu se janbe be vo da} means "Exactly four things are legs of
> lions".

No, that's quite correct (reading "tuple" for "janbe"). But the da's
in question are, of course, typical lion-legs. In general, the parts
of a lo'e are themselves going to be lo'e. 

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