From - Thu Mar 14 11:53:51 1996
From: jimc@math.ucla.edu
Message-Id: <9603131759.AA24578@molly.math.ucla.edu>
To: John Cowan <cowan@locke.ccil.org>
Subject: Re: TECH: magnitude 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 12 Mar 96 15:10:14 EST."
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Date: Wed, 13 Mar 96 09:59:11 -0800
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> I have been kicking around the idea of a new cmavo of selma'o KI,
> "ki'i'i" temporarily.  A sumti tcita involving this will be a specific
> magnitude, thus:
> 
> 1)      mi dansu le bisli ve'a ki'i'i lo mitre be li pa
>         I dance on the ice over-interval one-meter.
> etc.

It looks like you want the equivalent of fi'o ... [fe'u] in an interval.  I wonder
if fi'o by itself would work.  I suggest that rather than ki'i'i <sumti with args>
you should use ki'i'i'i <subordinate bridi>.  Rationale: Lojban is about predicates,
and you get more flexibility by using them.   Semantically specify what is the
referent of ke'a -- presumably the interval rather than the whole sentence as
it normally would be.  Do not restrict the stuffing to just numeric expressions;
there's no need.

		-- jimc