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

[Felipe Gonçalves Assis <felipeg.assis@gmail.com>]

2011/12/1 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.
>

I agree. So, if x3 is mu'a the quantity of millilitres or centimetres, then x4
would also be something that can be quantified in millilitres or centimetres.
What I don't think is that x4 would also be a white drink or a person.

>> (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?
>

{xu do djica (lo nu pinxe) lo ve zmadu be lo ladru (poi do pu pinxe
bei lo ka ma kau noi ladru cu me ce'u)}

mu'o
mi'e .asiz.

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