[lojban-beginners] Re: {pi} & {ro}

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

On Wednesday 06 June 2007 13:42, Vid Sintef wrote:
> Thank you, both Michael & Pierre.
>
> One more question, though...
>
> On 6/6/07, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
> > {vo lei nanba} means twenty loaves of bread, which is nonsense.
>
> Why nonsense? Might not that expression sensibly mean "four masses/packages
> (of five loaves of bread)"? Like {vo lei birje}, "four masses/bottles of
> beer"?

It means that you have some breads in mind (those five), and you are talking 
about twenty of them. Selecting twenty loaves out of five is nonsense.

Pierre