Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: How do you feel about this new usage?

From: Invent Yourself <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 23:01:19 -0400 (EDT)

On Fri, 12 Oct 2001 [email-masked] wrote:

> (english, because it's about lojban.)
>
> --- In lojban@y..., Invent Yourself <xod@s...> wrote:
> > ganai le jei le glico cu jai bau darlu kei cu pabdu'i le jei le
> nundarlu
> > bi'unai cu zasti gi li'a le bangu cu vajni
> >
> > Instead of le nunbroda cu rinka le nunbrode, I prefer le jezbroda
> (is
> > proportional to) le jezbrode.
> >
> > pabdu'i = proportional. Is there a better lujvo?
>
> this is one of those gismu we need to get when we kick out the
> cultural gismu/rafsi! anyways, that's pretty good. i think you're
> really trying to say "x1 x2 dunli/simsa le ka parbi". the
> tanru/lujvo just sort of abbreviates that.

This is an approximation of the English phrase "inasmuch as". Their truth
values are proprotional. Since all truth values are in [0, 1], I could
have just as well used bare dunli.

Also, x1 and x2 are jezbroda, of course. And instead of le ka parbi, it
could be le ni ce'u jetnu

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