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Re: [lojban] "three times as big"



That's distributive, except for the {lo canlu be}, which is distributive in the {canlu} bridi. I think the whole point of this discussion is that this isn't a distributive phenomenon.

mi'e la latro'a mu'o


On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com> wrote:
  How about "lo marce cu selca'u [pa'a/tai/lo canlu be] paki'o smacu"?

               --gejyspa




On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 10:39 PM, Felipe Gonçalves Assis <felipeg.assis@gmail.com> wrote:
This sentence from oz made me think:
{lo màrce cu bràmau ro lo smàcu poi pu'o làcpu my ku'o fo lo pìlji be li ki'o}

It is fine as it is, but I guess the intended meaning is "the vehicle was a thousand times bigger than each rat", while it means something like "1001 times bigger", since zmadu4 is the difference.

This is irrelevant for big inexact numbers, but what if I wanted to say, e.g., "three times bigger"? Would I have to say {bramau fo lo pilji be li re}? What about "three times smaller"? Should I use logarithms?

For round numbers, we have gismu like {kilto}, so we can say, e.g.
{lo marce cu braki'o ro lo smacu}. What about other numbers? Can we devise a lujvo schema?

mu'o
mi'e .asiz.

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