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From: Rob Speer <rspeer@MIT.EDU>
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Subject: [lojban] Re: COI, UI (was Re: cfari)
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On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 08:42:57AM -0800, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> You can always resort to full explicit predicates:
> 
>         ko'a le zvati cu sepli lo mitre be li pare
>         Ko'a from here is separated by 12 meters.

But that's still not "12 meters", it's "something that is 12 meters
long".

If ko'a and I are a meter away from each other, on opposite sides of a
12-meter plank, that would still be true.

-- 
Rob Speer