Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 06 Jun 2007 10:42:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HvzWg-0004e4-SC for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Wed, 06 Jun 2007 10:42:31 -0700 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.225]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HvzWd-0004dv-LV for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Wed, 06 Jun 2007 10:42:30 -0700 Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id t11so187416wxc for ; Wed, 06 Jun 2007 10:42:25 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=l1T+MLTPbpxoEBtMmnBw2w0TnSuCL8CH0YNKZ8GoEylBX/rwzXYJ4ddXi++uzu93fxVeWmb0nU3OG0uCZmbNzchNK45UWVSifS7A+oZ+3/gTiiZaQLxkzKBt2RSq17QbBPC5cUZnMJEhPvGXmmhkr6OEiSRVJljnehDQ33wsSSw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=k+IYrdrfMVqxan/8E19Lek9LREfuSEL3z7w2PoavepLord2NOvJcL0b731jgbNb8LTORFJ7EoAUoPThiGbVgu8za+FC9gN1B0zB9EaBZoz8S6Ixmo6tQewxXx46f4qe0c5KrshcYek0adSoLcdJAEO6//x+Yb68UYQylVsxd6YY= Received: by 10.70.27.18 with SMTP id a18mr1172291wxa.1181151745618; Wed, 06 Jun 2007 10:42:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.30.9 with HTTP; Wed, 6 Jun 2007 10:42:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <2f91285f0706061042n2e6e2a31n18ba589f0d08b8a5@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 18:42:25 +0100 From: "Vid Sintef" To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: {pi} & {ro} In-Reply-To: <200706060913.25367.phma@phma.optus.nu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_23813_25790072.1181151745582" References: <2f91285f0706060421g36d3cab8g50e6cd1d60afcb3@mail.gmail.com> <200706060913.25367.phma@phma.optus.nu> X-Spam-Score: 0.1 X-Spam-Score-Int: 1 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 4905 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: picos.picos@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners Content-Length: 1422 ------=_Part_23813_25790072.1181151745582 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Thank you, both Michael & Pierre. One more question, though... On 6/6/07, Pierre Abbat wrote: > > {vo lei nanba} means twenty loaves of bread, which is nonsense. Why nonsense? Might not that expression sensibly mean "four masses/packages (of five loaves of bread)"? Like {vo lei birje}, "four masses/bottles of beer"? Vid ------=_Part_23813_25790072.1181151745582 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Thank you, both Michael & Pierre.

One more question, though...

On 6/6/07, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
{vo lei nanba} means twenty loaves of bread, which is nonsense.

Why nonsense? Might not that expression sensibly mean "four masses/packages (of five loaves of bread)"? Like {vo lei birje}, "four masses/bottles of beer"?

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