Re: [lojban] What exactly is ranti?

[John E Clifford <clifford-j@sbcglobal.net>]

--- Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:

> My hair is soft, but not in the same way that
> tofu is soft. Rather, judging by 
> my nails which are made of the same stuff as my
> hair, my hair is actually 
> very hard. So should I say {lo mi kerfa cu
> jdari .iku'i loi mi kerfa cu 
> ranti},
This looks about right, hairs are hard (by
keratin standards, say) but hair (en masse) is
soft -- malleable, etc. So what is individually
hard collectively is malleable.  Probably not an
unusual situation.

 or should I say {lo sobjdu cu ranti
> .iku'i loi mi kerfa cu ...}?
> 
> phma
> 
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