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