From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed Jun 10 09:04:35 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:04:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MEQHz-0007tb-7K for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:04:35 -0700 Received: from yw-out-1718.google.com ([74.125.46.157]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MEQHt-0007t7-RL for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:04:34 -0700 Received: by yw-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 5so3497492ywm.46 for ; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:04:28 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=mqoQMJGalre7x9Rm7iOnLRULfNvUlGanqwLgoeLbhqQ=; b=MZcLEfAvh7AONhJ7Tg6qCO0jMLop+vv+9vW67AY4iRL4kDerMSWjI17zr/wE9sbP40 z3JVPjHZRozG7yydS01Zj5XwW1ihj5y9YemhodrosePI6mREZllN4J0b1hhsZ5R751Qf MPOyPMEX16vBxaYolkZCdPsRNALyeeJwC/Pp0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=WjZlQGi4wtNRzYY3QCSkbhbfxBML/Edm2YivQA2YuY603+LwC4/YdioDrGOEpQmvAD QVBC8Z+rsQ24Z7iYsD7yiZeoImkLzmSGHLQgD3Jq8jZAO9vnZ4vkqlCTt8K1DLUW5d/R sIHISLfShIRmaq0+VM0lZCuVsMCONhPxpyzws= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.151.121.12 with SMTP id y12mr3000060ybm.26.1244649868619; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:04:28 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4de8c3930906060827g5cf37f5k9f7c2c606d57d23@mail.gmail.com> References: <4de8c3930906060326h6efa660fmc9b38e59ecab7322@mail.gmail.com> <925d17560906060719l3e18d7ebwf6a83aab7bdec4c@mail.gmail.com> <4de8c3930906060827g5cf37f5k9f7c2c606d57d23@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:04:28 -0400 Message-ID: <96f789a60906100904q200f053ftc7ddb8721bf9a1d9@mail.gmail.com> Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: nu'a pi'i From: Michael Turniansky To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis X-archive-position: 1807 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: mturniansky@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 11:27 AM, tijlan wrote: > 2009/6/6 Jorge Llambías : >> On 6/6/09, tijlan wrote: >>> I'm trying to jbosku "This is several times more difficult than that". >>>  ti fo li so'o nandu zmadu ta >> >> I would say the ve zmadu is the difference in difficulty between ti >> and ta, rather than the quotient. > > .ua ki'e > I agree. I would suggest "ti fo lo pilji be li so'o bei lo ni ta nandu cu nandu zmadu fe ta" (or more formally, ti zmadu ta lo ka nandu kei lo pilji be li so'o bei lo ni ta nandu) (If there is objection from folks to "lo ni ta nandu", which I like, but I don't think xorxes does you can use "lo ta ni nandu") --gejyspa