[lojban] Re: outer and inner quantifiers on "le"

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

--- Pierre Abbat wrote:
> I think {fi'ure} should mean the same as {pimu} here. Men aren't a good 
> example, since separating half a man from the other half results in a dead 
> man, but what about a shelf with jars of sauce? If each jar contains 255 g of
> sauce and I need 15 g, I'd much rather say {fi'upaze le selbotpi sanso} than 
> {pira'enomubibirecimuresovopapazexavoze le selbotpi sanso} which most people 
> wouldn't recognize. 

Most people won't recognize 15 as 255/17 anyway.

I don't think such detailed fractions would have much use either
way.  

> (I'm not even sure most people know le saclu be me'o 
> 1/7.) If you want to say "half the men", and mean individuals, that's {lu'a 
> pimu lei nanmu}.

That would work either way, yes.

mu'o mi'e xorxes



		
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