Re: [lojban] {Archivist} niltei?

[Bob LeChevalier <lojbab@lojban.org>]

At 06:34 PM 11/12/03 -0500, Pierre Abbat wrote:
>On Wednesday 12 November 2003 17:47, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > In the definition for temci, it says:
> >
> >     [also age/elapsed time (= niltei)];
> >
> > What is the place structure of niltei, and how does one use it?
>
>The place structure is "x1 is the amount that x2 is the time interval from x3
>to x4".

You forgot the units.

x1 is the quantity on scale x2 by which x3 is the time interval from x4 to x5

perhaps reversing the orderof x2 and x3

>How one uses that, I can't imagine. For the elapsed time of an event,
>I'd use {selra'i} or {teryre'i}.

ISTM that those are just another form of lo temci - they are intervals and 
not measurements of intervals.


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