Re: [lojban] Re: COI, UI (was Re: cfari)

[Rob Speer <rspeer@MIT.EDU>]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 07:27:48PM -0800, Theo Reed wrote:
> > > Right. But 12 meters is {lo mitre be li pare}.
> > 
> > Alas, no; it designates something 12 meters long, not 12 
> > meters as a quantity.  That problem is still unsolved, 
> > leading to the kludge li paremy.
> 
> How would you discuss 12 meters as a quantity without discussing something that
> is 12 meters long? 2 masses of 6 meters each, or what?

How about the phrase "12 meters from here", or "five minutes ago", or
any such quantified tense that has no good way to be specified in
Lojban?
-- 
mu'o mi'e rab.spir