From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Wed Aug 21 18:10:09 2002 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 21 Aug 2002 18:10:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.05) id 17hgU9-0006Zl-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 18:10:05 -0700 Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 18:10:05 -0700 From: Robin Lee Powell To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: Re: [lojban] The number of dogs. Message-ID: <20020822011005.GA25193@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-archive-position: 740 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 11:56:11PM +0000, Jorge Llambias wrote: > I can't say for sure what {li mo'e le gerku} means, but one theory > holds that it is the dimensioned number "all the dogs", "All the things I am currently describing as dogs", actually. Note the 'le'. > like {li mo'e ci gerku} would give the dimensioned number "3 dogs". > "All the dogs" might work for "the number of dogs", but where would > you use it? Not in a context that asks for a bare number. And why not, exactly? -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. le datni cu djica le nu zifre .iku'i .oi le so'e datni cu to'e te pilno je xlali -- RLP http://www.lojban.org/