From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed Jul 12 10:57:29 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 12 Jul 2006 10:57:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1G0iwe-0002U3-KZ for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 10:56:20 -0700 Received: from mx27.mail.ru ([194.67.23.65]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1G0iwb-0002Tk-Lc for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 10:56:20 -0700 Received: from [85.249.235.245] (port=28039 helo=[10.15.28.10]) by mx27.mail.ru with asmtp id 1G0iwZ-000Gh4-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 21:56:15 +0400 Message-ID: <44B537D5.1080105@mail.ru> Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 21:56:37 +0400 From: Dmitry User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: A (rather long) discussion of {all} References: <20060711202019.94622.qmail@web56411.mail.re3.yahoo.com> <925d17560607111341h47d6a148k1696c8566c665c62@mail.gmail.com> <925d17560607111641p7790c532v61b71a487694633@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <925d17560607111641p7790c532v61b71a487694633@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-archive-position: 12155 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: ratson@mail.ru Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list Jorge Llambías wrote: > The grammatical distinction in English (and the other languages I'm > familiar > with) is not exactly between 1 and >1, but rather between 1 and non-1. We > do use the plural for <1 too: "zero zebras", "0.5 kilograms", "minus one > degrees", etc. Erm, newer knew about "-1". Just to illustrate, how quirky natural languages can be, in Russian, we say "gradus" for +-1C, "gradusa" for +-2..4C, and "gradusov" for 0C and temperatures over 4C (or lower than -4). How weird... I have newer thought about this thing before. Anti-offtopic: .ue lo rusko bangu na se logji To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.