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Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 20:53:18 -0300
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Subject: Re: [lojban] "three times as big"
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On 17 February 2014 20:27, Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com> wrote:

> But lo paki'o smacu is no more problematic than a lo pavyseljirna, is it?
>  Isn't that one of the points of xorlo?  Non-existence doesn't bother "lo".
>  These are 1000 theoretical mice.
>
>
I don't remember that being one of the points of xorlo... Anyway, I am fine
with imaginary objects, the point is that I shouldn't need to introduce
them here. In English I can say: "The vehicle was the size of a thousand
mice", or I can say "The vehicle was a thousand times bigger than each
mouse"; I have a choice, and the meanings are subtly different.

mu'o
mi'e .asiz.

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<div dir=3D"ltr"><br><div class=3D"gmail_extra"><br><br><div class=3D"gmail=
_quote">On 17 February 2014 20:27, Michael Turniansky <span dir=3D"ltr">&lt=
;<a href=3D"mailto:mturniansky@gmail.com" target=3D"_blank">mturniansky@gma=
il.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1p=
x #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir=3D"ltr">But lo paki&#39;o smacu is =
no more problematic than a lo pavyseljirna, is it? =A0Isn&#39;t that one of=
 the points of xorlo? =A0Non-existence doesn&#39;t bother &quot;lo&quot;. =
=A0These are 1000 theoretical mice.<div>

<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I don&#39;t remember that =
being one of the points of xorlo... Anyway, I am fine with imaginary object=
s, the point is that I shouldn&#39;t need to introduce them here. In Englis=
h I can say: &quot;The vehicle was the size of a thousand mice&quot;, or I =
can say &quot;The vehicle was a thousand times bigger than each mouse&quot;=
; I have a choice, and the meanings are subtly different. <br>
</div><div><br>mu&#39;o<br>mi&#39;e .asiz.<br></div></div></div></div>

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