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From: Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.hn.org>
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Subject: [lojban] Re: the long and short of it
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 12:53:32 -0400
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On Tuesday 15 June 2004 12:17, MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com wrote:
> In a message dated 2004-06-15 11:25:27 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
>
> lojban@yahoogroups.com writes:
> > How to say "long (in time)" in lojban?
> > E.g. "There is a long night".
> > {clani} is is for space dimension.
> > I need a brivla, so ze'u doesn't work.
> >
> > co'o mi'e kir
>
> why not still use "clani" (and "tordu" for short) and use 'time' in the
> dimension slot?

Makes sense to me - time is usually by far the longest dimension of an object.

Time alone is real,
the rest imaginary,
a quaternion.

phma
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