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

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

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 03:13:19PM -0500, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 November 2011 12:20:23 Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > "some more" there puzzles me.
> >
> > *In general*, talking about amounts of mass noun type things
> > puzzles me.
> >
> > 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"? Something with zmadu and cabna?
> 
> "xu do djica piza'u ladru?"

Oh, I rather like that!

-Robin

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