[lojban-beginners] Re: Enumerating in Lojban

["Adam D. Lopresto" <adam@pubcrawler.org>]

On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Philip Newton wrote:

> On 7/10/06, Jorge Llamb� <jjllambias@gmail.com> wrote:
> > One possibility:
> >
> >        mi rirni ci da noi verba li 12 fa'u li 10 fa'u li 4
>
> Can {fa'u} be used with numbers?
>
> (AKA: jbofihe doesn't like it but I don't know how much to make of that)

I'm not sure about {fa'u} with numbers, but it can be used with sumti.
jbofi'e has no problem with

    mi rirni ci da noi verba li 12 lo'o fa'u li 10 lo'o fa'u li 4

So I'm guessing it's a ku-joi problem
(http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=joiku).
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