On Sunday, 25 November 2012 00= :27:11 UTC, aionys wrote:

On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 2= :53 PM, ianek <jan...@gmail.com> wrot= e:
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 me= an
'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 translat= ed according to
definitions in jbovlaste, they don't work like that: "many stars&q= uot; 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 the= m.
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 inconsisten= t
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 star= s' and
{so'a tarci} for 'uncountable stars'. Only that I'm not sur= e why
"decimal point lots" would then mean "most", ie. more t= han half. Oh
well.

It's more that the English definitions o= f the words are flawed:

ro > so'a > so'e > so'i= > so'o > so'u > no

pa > piso'a > piso= 9;e > piso'i >piso'o > piso'i > no

piso'e > pimu > piso'o

Because these numbers are i= mprecise, it's obviously not possible to give specific numeric inequali= ties to them beyond the above, and even then, there may be cases where two = or more overlap with each other.
=A0

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, flicke= r 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 {camdes= ku}.
>
> The number of stars isn't infinite, it's just too many for hum= ans to count. You
> could say {ni'e bacterkancu}, but that's a bit long.
>
> Pierre
> --
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