From jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar Tue Nov 02 10:44:36 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 02 Nov 2004 10:44:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from web41904.mail.yahoo.com ([66.218.93.155]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CP3e0-0005P0-Mv for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Tue, 02 Nov 2004 10:44:36 -0800 Message-ID: <20041102184403.10391.qmail@web41904.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [200.49.74.2] by web41904.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 02 Nov 2004 10:44:03 PST Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 10:44:03 -0800 (PST) From: Jorge "Llambías" Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: How to say "Two months later" To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org In-Reply-To: <20041102175602.GF2858@chain.digitalkingdom.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-archive-position: 849 X-Approved-By: jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-original-sender: jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners --- Robin Lee Powell wrote: > "na na cei" is very far from what you want. {na} for "one" reminds me of Loglan numbers. If I remember correctly they are: 0 no 1 ne (oNE) 2 to (TwO) 3 te (ThreE) (TrEs) 4 fo (FOur) 5 fe (FivE) 6 so 7 se (SEven) (SietE) 8 vo 9 ve (nueVE) Easier to learn, but also easier to confuse in actual use. > > That's an *excellent* use of ji'e, though. It is? It seems extremely metaphorical to me. li papaci'e cu jimte lo nu mi se salbu lo valsi 11% is a limit/bound/extreme of my knowing words. ? Maybe {kuspe} gives a better metaphor: lo nu mi se slabu lo valsi cu kuspe li papace'i "My knowing of words extends over 11%" "11% is the extent to which I know words." But {papace'i lo valsi}, "11% of the words" is much more straightforward. mu'o mi'e xorxes __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com