Re: [lojban] scalars and portion selbri

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Jacob Errington <nictytan@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Using si'e implies *time* I'd say, because these MOI cmavo don't know
> of the natural implications of "going" such as distance travelled,
> etc. Furthermore, in Lojban we must frequently use events as proxies
> for their durations. ({mi klama ze'u lo cacra} is equivalen to {mi
> klama ze'u lo nu do citka} if do eats for one hour.) We can presumably
> use {la'e} to remedy this. Consider someone travelling to place 100km
> away. The first 50 km took 30 minutes to travel, but the last 50km
> took one hour. The temporal 50% is reached at 62.5km of travelled
> distance, but the distance 50% is reached at 50km.
>
> #4 {la'e lo nu caba'o klama cu fi'uresi'e la'e lo mu'e klama}

Or you could use "lo ve klama": "lo ca ba'o ve klama cu fi'u re si'e
lo ba mo'u ve klama".

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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