Re: [lojban] Re: {Archivist} niltei?

[Bob LeChevalier <lojbab@lojban.org>]

At 06:32 AM 11/14/03 -0800, Jorge "Llambías" wrote:
>--- Bob LeChevalier <lojbab@lojban.org> wrote:
> > At 06:34 PM 11/12/03 -0500, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> > >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.
>
>I think the interval is what is wanted, the time equivalent of canlu:
>"x1 is the duration, the time taken for x2 to happen". {selku'e} works,
>but it is not only for time.

Are we talking about the interval, or the measure of that interval?  Two 
5-second intervals are not necessarily the same interval, but their 
measures are the same.

lojbab

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