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From: "Mark E. Shoulson" <mark@kli.org>
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>--- In lojban@egroups.com, Pierre Abbat <phma@o...> wrote:
>    li'o
>>"how many species of fish are there" 
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>ma ni se finpe

Mmm.  That's more "how fish-species-y is (something unspecified)?"  Just
like {le ni blanu} is the amount of blueness (of something), {le ni se
finpe} is the amount of being-a-fish-species (of something).  Just HOW
fish-species-y can YOU be? :)

~mark