Received: from mail-vx0-f189.google.com ([209.85.220.189]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QuF8m-0000pB-8l; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 19:49:03 -0700 Received: by vxh2 with SMTP id 2sf3275845vxh.16 for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 19:48:53 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlegroups.com; s=beta; h=x-beenthere:mime-version:date:in-reply-to:references:user-agent :x-http-useragent:message-id:subject:from:to:x-original-sender :x-original-authentication-results:reply-to:precedence:mailing-list :list-id:x-google-group-id:list-post:list-help:list-archive:sender :list-subscribe:list-unsubscribe:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=FgoboOVUFD9/ZJubZZLNzql2jqNr9xM93Ya1iPvKNbQ=; b=cYtwaPFKJ4zUl/Ozj6heBk2kpCkrwxo9m4Gdc/YWJ268RRbOyrpLQSJLQnQleDPhVW cJw7qUHVVM8URbQlrT4L83g3tra6WAW2SndF42D2cbciUUOywm5ZBmJKqZTBYjUKAlyL vgptmetaKvoxmugwiGgVq+U5s7Dj9YkJ3nlRc= Received: by 10.220.180.69 with SMTP id bt5mr445557vcb.8.1313722131155; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 19:48:51 -0700 (PDT) X-BeenThere: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.220.205.91 with SMTP id fp27ls2157894vcb.0.gmail; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 19:48:50 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.220.108.203 with SMTP id g11mr457621vcp.16.1313722130713; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 19:48:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: by y4g2000vbx.googlegroups.com with HTTP; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 19:48:50 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 19:48:50 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe) Message-ID: <92518f90-e065-478d-8e55-7a17b73cfee4@y4g2000vbx.googlegroups.com> Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: How to correctly make comparisons between objects? From: Jed To: Lojban Beginners X-Original-Sender: three65daysaweek@yahoo.com X-Original-Authentication-Results: ls.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of three65daysaweek@yahoo.com designates internal as permitted sender) smtp.mail=three65daysaweek@yahoo.com; dkim=pass header.i=@yahoo.com Reply-To: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com Precedence: list Mailing-list: list lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com; contact lojban-beginners+owners@googlegroups.com List-ID: X-Google-Group-Id: 300742228892 List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: Sender: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Length: 1257 Oh, your translation for the second one looks like it says "The amount of the car being big is more than the amount of the cat being small." I'd have to check jboski to be sure, but interesting. Thanks. On Aug 18, 9:36=A0pm, Jorge Llamb=EDas wrote: > On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 11:27 PM, Jed wrote: > > > "The car is bigger than the cat." (For ease: car =3D karce, big =3D bar= da, > > cat =3D mlatu) > > lo karce cu zmadu lo mlatu lo ka ce'u barda > > Or, with a lujvo: > > lo karce cu bramau lo mlatu > > > "The car is bigger than the cat is small." (Yes, I know this sounds > > confusing. Think of it like there is a normal size for objects, and > > the car is proportionally farther from that size than the cat is. For > > ease: small =3D cmalu) > > lo ni lo karce cu barda cu zmadu lo ni lo mlatu cu cmalu > > mu'o mi'e xorxes --=20 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "= Lojban Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to lojban-beginners+unsubscribe@= googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/lojban= -beginners?hl=3Den.