Subject: Re: [lojban] kau -- What does it really mean?!

From: Invent Yourself <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 17:01:35 -0400 (EDT)

On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Jordan DeLong wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 06:59:27PM +0000, Jorge Llambias wrote:
> [...]
> > Comment2: ????
> > The number of people here is a large number.
> >
> > You want to refer to the number of people here in
> > terms of the question "how many people are here?".
> > You want to extract a number from a proposition.
> >
>
> What's wrong with something along the lines of
> le ni zvati prenu cu barda
>
> I think this is maybe getting away from what the OP was talking
> about, but I think the 'ni' abstractor does what you want for above.

ni doesn't count the number, it offers a quantitative version of ka. Yes,
it is about as useless as that sounds.

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