[lojban] Re: x2 of klani

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Sunday 07 December 2008 15:09:48 Arnt Richard Johansen wrote:
> I'm cleaning up lujvo definitions in Jbovlaste, and today, the turn has
> come to {muclai}, which in noralujv is defined thus:
>
> smuci+klani:  spoonful:   x1 = klani1 (quantity), x2 = smuci1 (spoon) =
> klani2 (quantifier), x3 = klani3 (scale of quantity)

li'o

> So in general, it seems that users of Lojban believe that what goes into
> one of the places is the description of some substance, and another of the
> places is some indication of how much there is of that substance. But they
> don't seem to agree on which is which -- in the first example, it seems
> that the quantity goes into the x1 and the mass of stuff goes into x2,
> while in the other examples, the situation is reversed.

The first example has {se klani}.

> Furthermore, what type of sumti can go into the x2? Is it a number?
> (Jorge's example is the only one that fills in the x2 explicitly.) But if
> it is a number, how can it also be a spoon, as the place structure of
> {muclai} seems to imply?

Looks like an error when compiling the list. I say it's a number, as in this 
example: {loi tcatymuclai be li 1/3 be'o ke zingibero purmo}, from the 
terjukpa page.

Pierre


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