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Re: [jboske] loi: quantitative claims

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Subject: Re: [jboske] loi: quantitative claims
From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 23:41:55 -0500 (EST)
In-reply-to: <5.2.0.9.0.20021217223822.03449d10@pop.east.cox.net> from "Robert LeChevalier" at Dec 17, 2002 10:46:34 PM

Robert LeChevalier scripsit:

> Now, if FIVE rabbits are eating cabbage in my garden, how does a 
> Trobriander describe it?

Well, if the mythical Trobrianders are anything like the very genuine
Chinese, they say "Five units of Rabbit are eating cabbage etc."

-- 
John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com> http://www.reutershealth.com
I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith. --Galadriel, _LOTR:FOTR_

References:
- Re: [jboske] loi: quantitative claims
  - From: Robert LeChevalier <lojbab@lojban.org>

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