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Re: [jboske] three pairs of shoes & excellent solutions



--- Invent Yourself <xod@hidden.email> wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, And Rosta wrote:
> 
> > "Three pairs of shoes" is very difficult to express adequately in Lojban.
> 
> The slob in the street currently has no problem using ci cutci remei.
> Tradition has so far avoided assigning such a tanru any non-obvious
> interpretation.

That's true. But {cutci remei ta'upei} is a legitimate question,
and we should have an answer.

I would answer {remei lo'e cutci}.

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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