fatri

[Pierre Abbat]

Which is correct?:
ca lo panomoi be lo ca masti loi citlanme cu fatri loi lanzu pa citlanme
or
ca lo panomoi be lo ca masti loi citlanme cu fatri pa lanzu pa citlanme
? What I want to say is that lambs are distributed among families so that each
family gets one lamb.

Pierre
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[Jorge Llambías]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 1:16 AM, Pierre Abbat <ph...@bezitopo.org> wrote:

Which is correct?:
ca lo panomoi be lo ca masti loi citlanme cu fatri loi lanzu pa citlanme
or
ca lo panomoi be lo ca masti loi citlanme cu fatri pa lanzu pa citlanme
? What I want to say is that lambs are distributed among families so that each
family gets one lamb.

The second version is definitely not what you want, since it says that the lambs were distributed among one family, so presumably all the other families got nothing.

The x3 of fatri is tricky, since it's logically a place for the (single) size of the portions, not for the (many) portions themselves, so I would say "lo citlamne cu fatri lo lanzu lo pa citlamne" "the lambs are distributed among the families in portions of one lamb". With "pa citlamne" it says that there is one and only one lamb x such that the lambs were distributed among the families with x as the portion, which is at least weird if not false.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

 

[Michael Turniansky]

  I was personally thinking "...lo'i lanzu lo'i pa citlamne", but I am probably wrong.  My thinking was that what we have is a collection of families and each one receives a set containing exactly one lamb.  But I wouldn't have any problem with Xorxes' version, either

           --gejyspa

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