RE: [jboske] Hello over there

["Jorge Llambias" <jjllambias@hotmail.com>]

la lojbab cusku di'e

> > le vi kumfa cu zenba le ka xokau prenu ce'u nenri kei
> > ca ro cacra li ci a li pano a li zeci
> > This room increases in how many people are in it
> > each hour by 3, 10 or 73.
> >
> >But we do need an intensional if we want "the number" as the
> >subject:
> >
> > lo-KIND te kancu be lei prenu pe le vi kumfa cu zenba
> > ca ro cacra fo li ci a li pano a li zeci
> > The number of people in this room increases every hour
> > by 3, 10, or 73.
>
> Why?
>
> What is wrong with just converting your first sentence to get what I think
> is the precisely same translation.
> le ka xokau prenu ce'u nenri kei cu selzenba le vi kumfa
> ca ro cacra li ci a li pano a li zeci

Those are indeed equivalent. By "subject" I did not mean "x1".
Every argument of a Lojban bridi is equally a subject. Both
my version and yours have a property as an argument, not the
number. I meant that if we want the number as an argument in
the main bridi, then we need to use lo-KIND.

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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