"How many" confusion
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Alex Rozenshteyn
Jan 5, 2011, 2:18:47 PM1/5/11
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How many siblings do you have?
My first instinct was {li xo tunba}, but this seems wrong, especially since {li pa tunba} is nonsensical; the number one cannot be a sibling.
Would "[I have] two siblings." be {reda tunba}, and "How many siblings [do you have]?" be {xoda tunba}?
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Alex R
Zifre
Jan 7, 2011, 5:47:40 PM1/7/11
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I would definitely go with "xo da tunba do"
Basically, whenever you need to apply a number or other similar
restriction to a selbri, use "da".
Also, I would definitely keep "do" in there. Lojban is not Japanese.
It's also not as pronoun-happy as English either, but somewhere in
between. In this case I feel like leaving "do" off is leaving a little
bit too much up to context.
mu'o mi'e zif
On 5 ene, 14:18, Alex Rozenshteyn <rpglove...@gmail.com> wrote:
> How many siblings do you have?<http://tatoeba.org/eng/sentences/show/700065>
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> <http://tatoeba.org/eng/sentences/show/700065>My first instinct was {li xo
Basically, whenever you need to apply a number or other similar
restriction to a selbri, use "da".
Also, I would definitely keep "do" in there. Lojban is not Japanese.
It's also not as pronoun-happy as English either, but somewhere in
between. In this case I feel like leaving "do" off is leaving a little
bit too much up to context.
mu'o mi'e zif
On 5 ene, 14:18, Alex Rozenshteyn <rpglove...@gmail.com> wrote:
> How many siblings do you have?<http://tatoeba.org/eng/sentences/show/700065>
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> <http://tatoeba.org/eng/sentences/show/700065>My first instinct was {li xo
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