Return-Path: LOJBAN%CUVMB.BITNET@vms.dc.LSOFT.COM Received: from SEGATE.SUNET.SE (segate.sunet.se [192.36.125.6]) by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id QAA17235 for ; Mon, 11 Dec 1995 16:50:49 +0200 Message-Id: <199512111450.QAA17235@xiron.pc.helsinki.fi> Received: from listmail.sunet.se by SEGATE.SUNET.SE (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.0a) with SMTP id E5FFF005 ; Mon, 11 Dec 1995 15:50:46 +0100 Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 14:50:16 GMT Reply-To: Don Wiggins Sender: Lojban list From: Don Wiggins Subject: Re: PLI: length vs longness To: Veijo Vilva Content-Length: 621 Lines: 22 > .i ma se nanca le nu do vi xabju Yes, this is the alternative, but is it not strange that you must specify the time units when asking? "How long" has no implication of being minutes or years in English. > > .i ma temci leco'anu do vi xabju le cabna > > And how would you answer these questions? .i mi danfu lu le nanca beli mu li'u I answer "The thing I describe as year's duration 5". This is sumti which fits the "ma" place. > .i do vi je ce'u xabju .i.e'u lu ca le purci be le cabna be'o nanca beli mu li'u How about "Simultaneous with the preceding-of-now year's duration 5". co'omi'e dn.