From lojban-beginners+bncCK7Yk5CUCxDXkLjyBBoETCZkBg@googlegroups.com Thu Aug 18 23:56:16 2011 Received: from mail-yw0-f61.google.com ([209.85.213.61]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QuJ01-0004Dl-R0; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 23:56:16 -0700 Received: by ywa6 with SMTP id 6sf4014152ywa.16 for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 23:56:07 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlegroups.com; s=beta; h=x-beenthere:received-spf:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:x-original-sender :x-original-authentication-results:reply-to:precedence:mailing-list :list-id:x-google-group-id:list-post:list-help:list-archive:sender :list-subscribe:list-unsubscribe:content-type; bh=ElBk6MSrovJqihLTqxN78eEKyxoHotPHu6YRCcVwPhg=; b=DyKcmuqFKhu+hV+bTE71dqbZkFxbYKWqL6BkuJaUwexd5ytKCiCaCy5JiPFaKc8trG qw+z8Zxn9GFhEpytFjY3RjXHLamcfO/r5ien9d97kbngmGOdDooZgwN+xi2U2UfdElfE di6vHKblIB2k26ctVm/2lMmXfFPp/hNMI2hT8= Received: by 10.150.113.3 with SMTP id l3mr291375ybc.60.1313736791180; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 23:53:11 -0700 (PDT) X-BeenThere: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.101.164.21 with SMTP id r21ls10569312ano.1.gmail; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 23:53:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.236.179.104 with SMTP id g68mr3576574yhm.9.1313736787802; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 23:53:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.236.179.104 with SMTP id g68mr3576572yhm.9.1313736787793; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 23:53:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-gw0-f41.google.com (mail-gw0-f41.google.com [74.125.83.41]) by gmr-mx.google.com with ESMTPS id k18si3214234anf.3.2011.08.18.23.53.06 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 18 Aug 2011 23:53:06 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of rdentato@gmail.com designates 74.125.83.41 as permitted sender) client-ip=74.125.83.41; Received: by gwaa20 with SMTP id a20so1555543gwa.0 for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 23:53:06 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.151.92.19 with SMTP id u19mr1735736ybl.336.1313736786588; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 23:53:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.42.165.199 with HTTP; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 23:53:06 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 08:53:06 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [lojban-beginners] How to correctly make comparisons between objects? From: Remo Dentato To: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com X-Original-Sender: rdentato@gmail.com X-Original-Authentication-Results: gmr-mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of rdentato@gmail.com designates 74.125.83.41 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=rdentato@gmail.com; dkim=pass (test mode) header.i=@gmail.com Reply-To: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com Precedence: list Mailing-list: list lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com; contact lojban-beginners+owners@googlegroups.com List-ID: X-Google-Group-Id: 300742228892 List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: Sender: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 4:27 AM, Jed wrote: > I.e., "more than" or "less than." I can only find out how to do this > with numbers, not with qualities and things like that. Following what we usually do with -gau {gasnu}, I would create lujvo with -mau {zmadu} -ma'e {mleca} and -du'i {dunli} {la tom. cu zmadu la bil. lo ka clapre} -> Tom is taller than Bill {la tom. cu clapremau la .bil.} -> Tom is taller than Bill {la .bil. cu mleca la .tom. lo ka clapre} -> Bill is less tall than Tom {la .bil. cu clapreme'a la .tom.} -> Bill is less tall than Tom {la .meris. cu dunli la .bil. lo ka clapre} -> Mary is as tall as Bill {la .meris. cu clapredu'i la .bil.} -> Mary is as tall as Bill The same with superlative -rai {traji}: {la tom. cu traji lo ka clapre} -> Tom is extremely tall {la tom cu claprerai} -> Tom is extremely tall There are many of those (selckiku once made a huge list of "smart lujvo" like these) remod. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lojban Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to lojban-beginners+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/lojban-beginners?hl=en.