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

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

2011/12/1 Felipe Gonçalves Assis <felipeg.assis@gmail.com>:
>
> I agree that {ve zmadu} is appropriate, but I don't think that {loka
> ce'u klani makau}
> is the right zmadu3 here. Wouldn't it make zmadu4 a se klani, instead
> of a ladru?

I think the x4 of zmadu should probably be like the x1 and x2,
something with property x3.

> (compare with "I am 10cm shorter than my mother")

mi no'u lo centre be li 165 cu mleca lo mi mamta no'u lo centre be li
175 lo ka ce'u klani ma kau lo centre kei lo centre be li 10
I, a 165 cm thing, am less than my mother, a 175 cm thing, in how much
we amount to in cm, by a margin of 10 cm.

> I believe it makes more sense to have an identity zmadu3 ({loka makau
> me ce'u}?),
> with the implied relation being simply of superset (or a similar
> mereological relation
> with difference).

Can you show how the whole thing would look like?

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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