Re: [lojban] kau -- What does it really mean?!

[Invent Yourself <xod@thestonecutters.net>]

On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Jordan DeLong wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 06:59:27PM +0000, Jorge Llambias wrote:
> [...]
> > Comment2:  ????
> >            The number of people here is a large number.
> >
> > You want to refer to the number of people here in
> > terms of the question "how many people are here?".
> > You want to extract a number from a proposition.
> >
>
> What's wrong with something along the lines of
> 	le ni zvati prenu cu barda
>
> I think this is maybe getting away from what the OP was talking
> about, but I think the 'ni' abstractor does what you want for above.


ni doesn't count the number, it offers a quantitative version of ka. Yes,
it is about as useless as that sounds.


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