Re: comments about Re: Translation needed

["Jorge Llambias" <jjllambias@hotmail.com>]

la adam cusku di'e

> >       ji'irevoki'o prenu cu mrobi'o ca ro djedi
> >       ri'a le nu xagji a le xagjyki'i rinka
> >
> > But that says that the same 24000 people die every day!
> > We need to change the order of the terms:
> >
> >       ca ro djedi ji'irevoki'o prenu cu mrobi'o
> >       ri'a le nu xagji a le xagjyki'i rinka
>
>I didn't think that the position of seltcita sumti made any difference.
>Does the book mention this?

Probably not explicitly, but tagged terms behave just as
regular terms, so the order of quantification should work
just as for regular terms.

> >       i pizemu lei mrobi'o cu verba li me'imu
>
>How do we know that we're not talking about children under 5
>months? It's just possible enough that would be the case.

My personal interpretation is that x2 of verba is in years.
I don't know of any logical way in Lojban of filling a slot
with dimensioned numbers, so I take all places that require
a number as dimensionless.

co'o mi'e xorxes





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