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Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: How to say "Two months later"
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--- Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> That makes perfect sense to me, although I would phrase it
> differently:
> 
> li pa pa ci'e cu jimte le se djuno be mi lo lojbo valsi

11% is a limit to the facts I know in the domain of lojban words?

The things I know about them include, for example:

- that they can be morphologically divided into cmavo, cmene, 
  gismu, lujvo and fu'ivla
- that they can be divided into selma'o according to their 
  syntactic behavior.
- that they can be unambiguously parsed from the speech stream
- etc.

What would it mean to say that those facts are limited by 11%?

Even changing {lo se djuno} to {lo slabu}:

 li papace'i cu jimte lo slabu be mi lo lojbo valsi

I would find it odd to call 11% a boundary. 11% is the total
amount of words known, not a boundary between those words I
know and the rest. 11% of the words constitute the whole extent 
of the words I know, not its boundary. Or just:

  lo slabu be mi cu klani li papace'i lo lojbo valsi 
  The ones I know anount to 11% in terms of lojban words

(If you insist on a scale instead of the units for the x3 of 
{klani}, change {lo lojbo valsi} to {lo se gradu be lo lojbo valsi},
"the scale that has lojban words as units".)

> > But {papace'i lo valsi}, "11% of the words" is much more
> > straightforward.
> 
> Oh, ce'i is in PA.  I thought it was in MOI.  OK, so then {mi djuno
> pa pa ce'i lo valsi} works.

I would support redefining {djuno} so that that makes sense.

mu'o mi'e xorxes





		
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