[lojban] Re: x2 of klani

["Chris Capel" <pdf23ds@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 14:41, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
> On Sunday 07 December 2008 15:09:48 Arnt Richard Johansen wrote:
>> 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.

I'd say its being a number is inconsistent with the definition in the
gismu list. It seems to me what "quantifier" means is "that which is
doing the quantifying/measuring", i.e. a measuring cup or spoon. By
the definition, it seems like the first place should be for the
number, and that's it's missing a place for what's being measured.
I.e., the definition as given makes no sense.

Chris Capel
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