From lojbab Sat Mar 6 22:46:41 2010 From: Logical Language Group Subject: Re: mo'e Date: Wed, 15 Mar 1995 09:57:38 -0500 (EST) Cc: lojbab@access.digex.net (Logical Language Group) In-Reply-To: <199503150057.AA10777@nfs2.digex.net> from "jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU" at Mar 14, 95 12:31:29 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24beta] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 946 Status: RO X-From-Space-Date: Wed Mar 15 09:57:51 1995 X-From-Space-Address: lojbab Message-ID: la xorxes. joi la lojbab. cusku be di'e casnu > > >Which one is right? If {mo'e de} means "some number de", then I can't > > >imagine what {mo'e pa plise} could mean. > > > > I was ellipsizing the restriction. How about mo'e de poi namcu > > (actually I might want namcu in the range 1-7 or something like that). > > That's still different from some number de. > > {de poi namcu} could be {li ci} for example. > > Is {mo'e li ci} the same as {ci} as a quantifier? Or is it the number > of numbers three, like supposedly {mo'e pa plise} is the number of apples > in "one apple"? I think that "mo'e li ci" is the same as "ci". However, it is not the case that "mo'e pa plise" is the number of apples in "one apple". Rather, it is a dimensioned number, like "5 meters", that has been coerced to the right grammatical type to fit in an equation. -- John Cowan sharing account for now e'osai ko sarji la lojban.