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Re: [lojban] Alternate counting?
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 7:11 AM, Lindar <lindarthebard@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I am posting on behalf of an associate with whom I regularly attend meetings
> regarding Lojban (and conlangs in general). He would like to know if there
> are other ways to count or represent numbers in Lojban. I did not quite
> catch the exact meaning as I couldn't fully understand his ideas behind
> counting, but I think his idea was how count by exponents or any number of
> such things. Referencing the CLL on this would be great.
I can't find anything in CLL about counting, but I think the way to
count in Lojban is:
pa .i re .i ci .i vo .i mu ...
If you don't insert the ".i" between numbers, you end up saying one
large number instead of counting.
mu'o mi'e xorxes
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