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Re: [lojban-beginners] Units and Descriptions



On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Felipe Gonçalves Assis <felipeg.assis@gmail.com> wrote:
So, I got

On 9 March 2012 18:12, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
> mi mitre li papimu .i lo nunctuca cu cacra li papimu .i mi se mitre lo se
> cacre be lo nunctuca
>

vs.

On 10 March 2012 17:43, Jonathan Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com> wrote:
> la'e lo se mitre cu namcu .i lo se mitre cu klani lo namcu losi'o gradu lo
> gugykruca loka clani
>


The first one suggests that lo se mitre and lo se cacra are plain numbers,
while the second states that lo se mitre is something more complicated
which refers to a number.

No they don't. The first one says that "I am 5 meters long. An event of teaching is 5 hours long. I am a-number-of-meters-measuring something-measured-in-hours which-is an-event-of teaching."

The second one says "The referent of something-that-is-measured-in-meters is a-number. Something-measured-in-meters is a-quantity measured-by a-number in-scale the-idea-of a unit of-standard the-international in-scale the-property-of being long".

The two are wholly unrelated statements.
 
pier and aionys, could you please answer yes or no to whether each of the
example sentences given by me or each other makes sense?

mu'o
mi'e .asiz.

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