Re: [lojban-beginners] Units and Descriptions

[Felipe Gonçalves Assis <felipeg.assis@gmail.com>]

ki'e .lindar.
ki'e gejyspa

That clarified a lot.

mu'o mi'e .asiz.

On 19 March 2012 16:15, Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Lindar <lindarthebard@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Can someone please answer which of the following sentences make sense
>>> and which don't?
>>
>>
>> Sure.
>>
>>>
>>>   1. {ko'a mitre li papimu}
>>
>>
>> Makes sense. X is 1.5 metres.
>>
>>>
>>>   2. {li papimu namcu}
>>
>>
>> 1.5 is a number.
>>
>>>
>>>   3. {lo se mitre cu namcu}
>>
>>
>> A number quantifying the length of an object in metres is a number.
>>
>>>
>>>   4. {ko'a mitre lo se cacra be ko'e}
>>
>>
>> X is as many metres long as Y is hours long.
>>
>>>
>>>   5. {la'e lo se mitre cu namcu}
>>
>>
>> The referent of the number quantifying the length of something in metres
>> is a number.
>> (This is a false statement AFAIC.)
>>
>> Everything except this last one makes sense to me.
>
>
>   Not necessarily.  For example, you could have a series of numbered doors,
> behind each of which is a (non-related) quantity of eggs.  You could refer
> to the number of the door to obliquely refer to the number of eggs behind
> it.  And therefore use the length of something to specify that door number.
>  Could be done, but yeah, contrived.
>           --gejyspa
>
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