[fi'o suckancu da] ji'i pi ze lo ro spati poi se terdi ti cu diklo loi papa gugde ku no'u la sralygu'e kujoi la razgu'e kujoi la jugygu'e kujoi la kolombi,as joi la ekuador joi la xingu'e kujoi la bidgu'e kujoi la madagaskar joi la mexygu'e kujoi la pervu'ui zei gugde kujoi la gugdecudu
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Pierre Abbat
<phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
I'm doing research on herbs and found this sentence: “It is also estimated
that 70% of the plants existing in the planet occur in only 11 countries:
Australia, Brazil, China, Colombia, Ecuador, India, Indonesia, Madagascar,
Mexico, Peru, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.” In case I mistranlated,
the original, in Portuguese, is on page 2 of
http://www.cedeplar.ufmg.br/seminarios/seminario_diamantina/2010/D10A022.pdf .
How would you state this in Lojban?
Obviously he means species of plants, not individual plants. An individual
plant cannot occur in more than three countries (unless there's a Four
Corners of countries somewhere). But with the quantifiers in that order, it's
highly unlikely that all species of plants which occur in 11 countries occur
in the same 11 countries.
Pierre
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