Date:  Mon, 20 Apr 1998 05:10:35 -0400 (EDT)
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Subject:      Re: years and oscillations
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>First, what goes in the x2 of nanla/nixli/verba, the age of the
>boy/girl/child?
>Is it the number of years? As in:
>
>            ta verba li se
>            That is a child of 7.

I would say
            ta verba lo nanca be li se
or
            ta verba lo nanca zemei
(make that ze in your sentence and my first response)

>But how do I insert the frequency, say three times per second (3 Hz)?
>One possiblity would be:
>
>        le gusni cu slilu li ci le ka blanu kei ce le ka xunre kei
>        tela'u le ka nidykemrapli
>        The light oscilates with frequency 3 between being blue
>        and being red in a scale of repetitions per second.
>
>But if this is right it would seem that the x2 of slilu makes no sense
>unless a place is added for the scale. Can that be right?

Here again I would use lo [units] be li ci
where units here is cycles per second/hertz, appropriately lujvoized.

lojbab