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Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: ma xe fanva zoi gy Countless stars were
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It isn't infinite, but I used {ci'i} as a hyperbole. Maybe {so'iso'i}
or something would be good, but it doesn't sound very serious. BTW,
{so'e} and {so'a} are defined as 'most' and 'almost all', but it
doesn't make much sense since 1. they fit in the {so'V} sequence of
imprecise numerals and the other three do not refer to being a part of
something, 2. there are compounds {piso'e} and {piso'a} and they mean
'most of' and 'almost all of', which for me is the same.

What I mean is: the sequence is decrementing imprecise numerals:
{so'a}, {so'e}, {so'i}, {so'o}, {so'u}. But if translated according to
definitions in jbovlaste, they don't work like that: "many stars" may
mean arbitrarily many stars, while "most stars" would mean that
there's some set of stars and we're talking about a majority of them.
Completely other thing. And if we want to say that, we might as well
use {piso'e}: "most of the stars" and it would mean the same. So, as
for me, {so'e} and {so'a}, as defined in jbovlaste, are inconsistent
with the rest of this series.

I may be, and probably am very wrong about all this, but there goes my
rant. I'd like to be able to use {so'e tarci} for 'lots of stars' and
{so'a tarci} for 'uncountable stars'. Only that I'm not sure why
"decimal point lots" would then mean "most", ie. more than half. Oh
well.

mu'o mi'e ianek

On 24 Lis, 22:12, Pierre Abbat <p...@bezitopo.org> wrote:
> On Saturday, November 24, 2012 11:26:33 ianek wrote:
> > I'd try to translate it as {ci'i tarci pu carmi bu'u lo tsani}, but I
> > may be very wrong. There's no simple word for twinkle, flicker or
> > blink.
>
> I'd say {kliniota} for "blink", but that probably wouldn't be understood =
by a
> non-French-speaker. A possible word for "twinkle" is {camdesku}.
>
> The number of stars isn't infinite, it's just too many for humans to coun=
t. You
> could say {ni'e bacterkancu}, but that's a bit long.
>
> Pierre
> --
> When a barnacle settles down, its brain disintegrates.
> J=E1 n=E3o percebe nada, j=E1 n=E3o percebe nada.

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