Re: North Wind tale

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Ivan on my NorWind thingy:
>>  >la berbif. joi la sol. puki darlu lejei ri jikau ra vlimau le drata kei
>>  Your method of "which is stronger" works okay <...>
>I don't like it.  What if there were more contestants?  Suppose it
>were the snow, the rain and the wind.  Or suppose the twelve months of
>the year were wondering which of them was the most important one.
>Would you say {lejei rixipa jikau rixire jikau ... jikau rixipapa
>jikau rixipare}?

No. I don't know if you'll like what I'd prefer, but: {lejei [or: ledu'u]
dakau no'u rixipa .a rixire .a ... .a rixipare}. Or, to kill those
subscripts, {ledu'u leno'a po'u dakau}: the subject of the outside sentence
*restricted to* the particular {da}.

Yes, I know this is a kludge. {ledu'u dakau poi cmima le'ino'a} isn't much
better either. It's one of these imperfect mappings of NL into First Order
logic, methinks. Alternate insights welcome.


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University of Melbourne, Australia.	 Healed the hole that ripped in living"
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