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Re: [lojban] Re: A (rather long) discussion of {all}



Jorge Llambías wrote:
The grammatical distinction in English (and the other languages I'm familiar
with) is not exactly between 1 and >1, but rather between 1 and non-1. We
do use the plural for <1 too: "zero zebras", "0.5 kilograms", "minus one
degrees", etc.
Erm, newer knew about "-1". Just to illustrate, how quirky natural languages can be, in Russian, we say "gradus" for +-1C, "gradusa" for +-2..4C, and "gradusov" for 0C and temperatures over 4C (or lower than -4).

How weird... I have newer thought about this thing before.

Anti-offtopic:
.ue lo rusko bangu na se logji