On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 11:17 AM, la gleki
<gleki.is.my.name@gmail.com> wrote:
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mi zmadu do lo ni barda (I exceed you in property of being big) => mi poi zilkarbi do cu barda (I compared to you is big).
ka, not ni. ni is quantity, ka is property.
Although this is completely unrelated to the thread -- then again so is your reply, too -- the abstraction suggestions in the gimste are not prescriptive. (You can dig around the archives to see that Lojbab himself has said this.)
Some of us have adopted a system of abstractions that is more self-consistent, and indeed, that system puts a quantity abstractor in zmadu3. What gleki said isn't wrong; it simply doesn't conform to your style of Lojban.
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