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Re: [lojban] scalars and portion selbri
Thank you for the thorough responses!
On Friday, July 13, 2012 11:16:25 AM UTC-5, tsani wrote:#2 {mi klama jai fi'ucisi'e [lo mu'e klama]}
{jai} confuses me still about 60% of the times I see it. Could you explain this usage a bit more?
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.
This makes sense, for si'e comparing {lo nu}s to be comparing the temporal dimension. I'd even go as far as to say the subjectivity of time is implied -- that is, if I were to give the comparison, I'd be saying that I think of one event as half of the other event in some way. That would be first assumed to be in my own conception of the length of time, and if that made no sense, then some other dimension could be looked to.
#4 {la'e lo nu caba'o klama cu fi'uresi'e la'e lo mu'e klama}
what on earth are you trying to do here?
({la'e} only confuses me 20% of the time nowadays)
We can possibly use {ni} to get a
"natural-ish-useful-context-dependent-measure-comparable-thing" thanks
to No One Understands ni (tm):
#5 {lo ni caba'o klama cu fi'uresi'e la'e lo mu'e klama}
Oh, celestia. Please never do this. I like {ni}, and this seems like abuse. It would be referring to an amount of traveling, sure, but there's {ve klama} sitting right there...
What {ni} would be good for is if it needed to be explicit as to what scale was to be used. (time/space/length/etc) I'd totally approve of that.
#6 {mi jai fi'u re si'e co ni klama xy} "I'm halfway to X."
Yeah, aforementioned "I don't get {jai}" -- help?
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