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Re: [lojban-beginners] How to say "to the degree of"?




On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 2:08 PM, la arxokuna <gleki.is.my.name@gmail.com> wrote:
is there a BAI/brivla for "to the degree of" ?

1. I'm so strong that I can lift this piano = I'm strong to the degree that I can lift this piano
2. Are you as excited as we are? = Are you excited to the same degree as we are excited?
3. How rich is Tom? = To what degree Tom is rich?
4. The food was so good that I ate too much. = The food was good to the degree that I ate too much.


I think of the that-complement of "so" as a result, rather than a degree:

I'm so strong that, as a result, I can lift this piano.
The food was so good that, as a result, I ate too much.

Especially in the last case, I have trouble seeing how eating too much could be a degree of food being good.  I use "tai ... i ja'e bo ..." for "so... that ...". "tai" is more general than "to such a degree/to such an extent", but I think it covers it.
 
May be it's gradu but then what to fill it's places with?
gradu = x1 [magnitude] is a unit/degree of/on scale/reference standard x2 (si'o) measuring property x3.

For me "gradu" is the otherwise missing element of this series, just slightly oddly worded:

... 
kilto: x1 is a thousand [1000; 10^3] of x2 in dimension/aspect x3
xecto: x1 is a hundred [100; 10^2] of x2 in dimension/aspect x3
dekto: x1 is ten [10; 10^1] of x2 in dimension/aspect x3
gradu: x1 is one [1; 10^0] of x2 in dimension/aspect x3
decti: x1 is a tenth [0.1; 10^-1] of x2 in dimension/aspect x3
centi: x1 is a hundredth [0.01; 10^-2] of x2 in dimension/aspect x3
milti: x1 is a thousandth [0.001; 10^-3] of x2 in dimension/aspect x3
...

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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