[lojban] Re: [lojban-beginners] Re: Let's do something like this for Lojban!

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

On 7 March 2012 16:57, Jonathan Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 8:10 AM, Felipe Gonçalves Assis
> <felipeg.assis@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >> zmadu3 is a dimension, so it should be {lo ka ce'u nanca makau kei}.
>> >> Since this is the last utterance, and it appears to be decipherable,
>> >> you might want to play with the reader and leave it like that. A more
>> >> friendly alternative is to use a tanru like {nanca zmadu}, as in 56.
>> >
>> >
>> > z3 is not a dimension. It is a property or quantity. lo se nanca is a
>> > quantity.
>> >
>>
>> z4 is a quantity and a {se nanca}. z3 is a quantity that is a function of
>> something. Otherwise, what could be an answer to the following questions?
>>  {la .sam. zmadu la .clalis. li xo}
>>  {la .sam. zmadu la .clalis. lo se nanca be ma}
>>
>
>
> Seriously, stop arguing things without making sure you're right first.
>
> zmadu: x1 exceeds/is more than x2 in property/quantity x3 (ka/ni) by
> amount/excess x4.
>
> z4 is amount by which x1 is more than x2, z3 is the property/quantity in
> which x1 is more.
>

I am not denying that you may call z3 a quantity, but there is a major
difference
between the natures of "my age" and "one's age". The first is a number, the
second is a mapping. nanca2 is a number, z3 is not.

mu'o
mi'e .asiz.

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