2009/9/19 Pierre Abbat <p...@phma.optus.nu>: > On Saturday 19 September 2009 07:22:51 Squark Rabinovich wrote: >> Hey everyone! >> >> How do you translate "only" to *lojban*? > > "only" is "po'o", which follows the word it modifies. > >> For instance, how would you translate the following sentences: >> *do fanva di'e la lojban. la gliban. ma* >> >> "Only John went to the moon" > la djan. po'o klama le lunra
Could the English not also mean "The only case is that John went to the moon.", which would translate to "po'o la djan. klama le lunra", where "po'o" modifies the implicit ".i" and thus the whole sentence? >> "Only John and Jane went to the moon" > la djan. e la djein. po'o klama le lunra Wouldn't that Lojban mean "The only person who accompanied John in going to the moon was Jane"? That is: da .e [de] po'o broda = da .e fu'e po'o de fu'o broda rather than [da .e de] po'o broda = fu'e po'o da .e de fu'o broda mu'o mi'e tijlan
