Re: [lojban] baby words: "would you like some more milk?"

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 09:43:56PM -0300, Jorge Llambías wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Robin Lee Powell
> <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> >
> > "some more" there puzzles me.
> 
> xu do djica (lo nu pinxe) lo ve zmadu be lo ladru (poi do pu
> pinxe)
> 
> > It's certainly not zmadu.  jmina is kinda weird.  Perhaps a
> > lujvo for "x1 is an additional amount of x2 on top of current
> > amount x3"?
> 
> ve zmadu: "x1 is an additional amount on top of x2 in property x3
> totalling x4"

What's the property?  I think of that as being for things like "more
blue"; alterations in a(n already-present?) *property*.  To me, an
bunch of something (i.e. a pile of milk) is not a property.  I think
the CLL agrees with me?

-Robin

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