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Re: [lojban] word for "www" (was: Archive location.)



On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 10:55:14PM +0000, Jorge Llambias wrote:
> la lojbab cusku di'e
> >I've never seen "pa djacu"
> >used to refer to 1 molecule of water.
> 
> I would never use {pa djacu} for one molecule. That would
> be {pa selci be lo'e djacu}. {pa djacu} for me is a quantity
> of water, normally in its liquid state.

Isn't it just any one thing which is made of water?
	pa djacu = pa lo ro djacu
so a lake or such would count, along with a single molecule.  The
speaker isn't saying which; just that it is one thing (anything)
which is made of water.

-- 
Jordan DeLong
fracture@allusion.net

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