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Re: [lojban] "three times as big"




On 17 February 2014 20:27, Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com> wrote:
But lo paki'o smacu is no more problematic than a lo pavyseljirna, is it?  Isn't that one of the points of xorlo?  Non-existence doesn't bother "lo".  These are 1000 theoretical mice.


I don't remember that being one of the points of xorlo... Anyway, I am fine with imaginary objects, the point is that I shouldn't need to introduce them here. In English I can say: "The vehicle was the size of a thousand mice", or I can say "The vehicle was a thousand times bigger than each mouse"; I have a choice, and the meanings are subtly different.

mu'o
mi'e .asiz.

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