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Re: [lojban] The number of dogs.



On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 11:56:11PM +0000, Jorge Llambias wrote:
> la camgusmis cusku di'e
> 
> >li mo'e le gerku
> >
> >-Robin, who has become a convert to the belief that le ni gerku *never*
> >means "the number of dogs".
> 
> I agree about {le ni}, but I would just say
> {le terkancu be lei gerku}, just a little bit longer but
> hopefully with a plain meaning. (Unfortunately there
> isn't a simple selbri for "x1 is the number (cardinality)
> of (mass/set) x2".)
> 
> I can't say for sure what {li mo'e le gerku} means, but
[...]

The book says for sure, however.

-- 
Jordan DeLong
fracture@allusion.net

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