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Date: Sat Dec  9 10:36:28 1995
From: Goran Topic <topic@STUDENT.MATH.HR>
Subject:      Re: PLI: length vs longness
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To: John Cowan <cowan@LOCKE.CCIL.ORG>
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> I think "(having length)" is intended to mean "has a physical length" as
> opposed to (say) a temporal length.

I don't know. Expressing "long stick" and "long time" analoguously (is
this correct?) is not a linguistic universal, but many languages I have
info on do so. E.g. some Amerindian just can't say that in the same way,
and would find it very illogical to treat time and space equally, but
I don't see how else can we do that in lojban. Consider:

    It's been long since you've left.

The only thing I can think of is

    lo temci be lenu do cliva cu clani

co'o mi'e. goran.

PS. Of course, beside the obvious {do puze'u cliva}

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