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Re: [lojban-beginners] so'inono



On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
> On Sunday 11 April 2010 21:10:19 Stela Selckiku wrote:
>> I noticed this usage on the new ralju pagbu (excellent project btw):
>> "so'inono".  I assume that means "hundreds"?  I'd never seen the so'X
>> series used that way that I can recall, but it does make a lot of
>> sense.  Does everyone agree that that means what it seems to mean?
>>
>> And then, would "so'u no no" mean in the low hundreds, while "so'a no
>> no" would mean nearly a thousand?  One of my Lojban YouTube videos has
>> so'anono views! :)
>
> "so'inono" means "many, which is zeroty-zero", as has been explained. The
> correct way to say "hundreds" is "tu'onono". "renotu'otu'o",
Ah, I get the idea behind tu'onono. I suppose if you were asking for a
number of hundreds you would use 'xonono'.


in a year
> context, means "somewhen from 2000 to 2099".

I thought tu'o meant a [null] number, not a digit.
I suppose you could interpret tu'o as taking the same amount of digits
up as '0'/'no', in which case your interpretation holds.
Otherwise, CLL seems to be fairly unspecific about it; I'm personally
inclined to interpret "renotu'otu'o" as you said, and interpret
"renotu'o" as 'any positive number starting with the digits 20'

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