Re: [lojban] Another comic (Again!)

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com> wrote:
> I know this has been discussed many times before but to be sure...  So,
> xorxes, you would use {ji'i} in a way such that {li re ji'i pa} would be
> understood to mean what exactly?

Somewhere around 2 or 1. (I would tend to put the lower number first though.)

> Some actual number that is definitely
> twenty something, and it's around 21 (so it cannot be 19 but 24 would be
> reasonable)?

No, nothing like that.

> So in your understanding of {ji'i}, if I wanted to say "about 10" would I
> have to say {li ji'i pano}.

Right.

> Would this mean "0, 10, 20, or 30" or "8, 9,
> 10, 11, or 12".  (i.e. would the ji'i apply to only the pa, or would it
> apply to pano).

Same as "about 10".

I don't think 0 can normally be about 10, unless maybe you are
thinking of temperatures?

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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