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... -- Jordan DeLong fracture@allusion.net
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