[lojban] Re: {Archivist} niltei?

[Jorge "Llambías" <jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar>]

--- Bob LeChevalier <lojbab@lojban.org> wrote:
> At 01:07 AM 11/18/03 +0000, jjllambias2000 wrote:
> >--- In lojban@yahoogroups.com, Bob LeChevalier <lojbab@l...> wrote:
> > > At 10:45 PM 11/16/03 -0800, Robin wrote:
> > > >     li muno cu niltei lo nanca le mi mivytei
> > > >for "I am 50 years old", right?
> > > That was the theory, whether people choose to accept it or not %^)
> >I'm
> > > equally amenable to dropping the x2 in favor of lo nanca be li muno
> >for
> > > x1.  The point was to distinguish the interval from its measurement.
> >
> >The interval goes in the x1 of nanca, and the measurement in x2,
> >right? The double meaning of ni shows in that you are equally happy
> >with either for the x1 of ni.
> 
> "Happy"?  Rather, I am "accepting".  Since I never bought into jvajvo 100%, 
> I can accept that people might choose one or the other based on aesthetics 
> or brevity, and both work.

Is the x1 of ni a klani or a se klani? The x1 of niltei should
be of the same type.

> >Since you can say {le mi mivytei cu nanca li muno},
> >  it is not clear what {niltei} adds.
> 
> It adds niltei as a selbri for the concept.  I'm not sure I ever claimed 
> anything more than that.  not all selbri will be immensely useful.

But for which concept? If it can be either the nanca or the se nanca,
it seems to add to the confusion.

mu'o mi'e xorxes



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