From phma@webjockey.net Fri Mar 26 14:44:40 2004 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 62863 invoked from network); 26 Mar 2004 22:44:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m10.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 26 Mar 2004 22:44:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO blackcat.ixazon.lan) (208.150.110.21) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 26 Mar 2004 22:44:39 -0000 Received: by blackcat.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 49F3A2387; Fri, 26 Mar 2004 22:44:33 +0000 (UTC) Organization: dis To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 17:44:32 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <5.2.0.9.0.20040326113834.030ae480@pop.east.cox.net> <5.2.0.9.0.20040326170952.030ea920@pop.east.cox.net> In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.0.20040326170952.030ea920@pop.east.cox.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200403261744.32682.phma@webjockey.net> X-eGroups-Remote-IP: 208.150.110.21 From: Pierre Abbat Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: fi'u was Re:lanzu usage X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=92712300 X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 21824 On Friday 26 March 2004 17:19, Bob LeChevalier wrote: > I never considered the use of boi to be that problematical, especially > since it can be required sometimes even with pure numbers (JCB's classic > example was "five 55-gallon drums"). Ambiguous in English is "five hundred fifty five gallon drums". The total capacity can be 555, 2750, 27500, or any multiple of 555 that is greater than 555. phma -- li fi'u vu'u fi'u fi'u du li pa