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Re: Digits (was Re: [lojban] mi prami la lojban .iku'i...)



At 12:38 AM 06/22/2001 -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote:
At 05:56 PM 6/21/2001, Bob LeChevalier (lojbab) wrote:
>At 07:52 PM 06/21/2001 -0400, pycyn@aol.com wrote:
...
> >pc, who cannot reliably count to 5 in Lojban -- and certainly not to 6
> (which
> >I can do in Hindi, for God sake!)
>
>Really!  I knew parecivomu before I knew 50 gismu. xazebisono took me only
>a little longer.

.oiro'o .i e'osai ko cusku li noparecivo.muxazebiso lu

0 is not the next numeral after 9, even if the idiotic QWERTY keyboard puts

True, I should have said pano. But I have never started counting at zero, so your approach doesn't help much. How about sobizexamu vocirepano (although I feel inclined to insert a boi between each number and end with a lujvo for "liftoff" - that how most people of my generation think of counting down).

lojbab
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