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Re: [lojban] Individuals and xorlo




On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 6:25 PM, Felipe Gonçalves Assis <felipeg.assis@gmail.com> wrote:



On 4 February 2014 16:31, Dan Rosén <lurifax@gmail.com> wrote:

    lo pa xanto = zo'e noi ke'a xanto gi'e zilkancu li pa lo xanto,

but {lo xanto} can be plural, so this removes the effect of the zilkancu part. Is it that I misunderstand this equation, or is it just false?


I don't have much to say. I can't make sense of this equation, and disregard it.

Let me just note that making xanto singular wouldn't help me either: Which elephant in the world could possibly be a unit for counting elephants?

If you don't think that the elephant is a good unit for counting elephants, you could say "lo gradu be fi lo ka xanto", or, as you said, redefine "kancu" so that it takes a tergradu instead of a gradu in x4.

Do you have the same qualms with "lo mitre" or "lo snidu" to refer to units? What would you fill the x1 of gradu with?

mu'o mi'e xorxes 

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