From lojban-out@lojban.org Wed Aug 21 18:10:53 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_1_0_1); 22 Aug 2002 01:10:53 -0000 Received: (qmail 19526 invoked from network); 22 Aug 2002 01:10:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m10.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 22 Aug 2002 01:10:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO digitalkingdom.org) (204.152.186.175) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 22 Aug 2002 01:10:52 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.05) id 17hgUu-0006aE-00 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 18:10:52 -0700 Received: from digitalkingdom.org ([204.152.186.175] helo=chain) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 17hgUF-0006Zv-00; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 18:10:11 -0700 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 21 Aug 2002 18:10:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.05) id 17hgU9-0006Zl-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 18:10:05 -0700 Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 18:10:05 -0700 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: Re: [lojban] The number of dogs. Message-ID: <20020822011005.GA25193@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-archive-position: 740 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk X-list: lojban-list X-eGroups-From: Robin Lee Powell From: Robin Lee Powell Reply-To: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=116389790 X-Yahoo-Profile: lojban_out On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 11:56:11PM +0000, Jorge Llambias wrote: > I can't say for sure what {li mo'e le gerku} means, but one theory > holds that it is the dimensioned number "all the dogs", "All the things I am currently describing as dogs", actually. Note the 'le'. > like {li mo'e ci gerku} would give the dimensioned number "3 dogs". > "All the dogs" might work for "the number of dogs", but where would > you use it? Not in a context that asks for a bare number. And why not, exactly? -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. le datni cu djica le nu zifre .iku'i .oi le so'e datni cu to'e te pilno je xlali -- RLP http://www.lojban.org/