Re: [lojban-beginners] Link in the sense of chain

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Monday 25 June 2012 21:02:49 .arpis. wrote:
> {lo linsi} is a chain; {lo se linsi} is the material of the chain; {lo
> te linsi} is ... I don't really know.
>
> How would I translate "link".

How about "linsle"?

> Relatedly (in my head, at least), is there a consensus for how to
> count things in proper lojbanic style? e.g. one link, two links, three
> links...

Don't know about consensus, but "pa linsle re linsle ci linsle" is 
grammatical. If you just say numbers, you have to put something between them, 
like "pa .i re .i ci". Otherwise you're saying a big number.

Pierre

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