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



On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 05:01:35PM -0400, Invent Yourself wrote:
> 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.

Err, but that's exactly what we want here...

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Jordan DeLong
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