From phma@webjockey.net Wed Aug 21 18:16:24 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_1_0_1); 22 Aug 2002 01:16:24 -0000 Received: (qmail 32885 invoked from network); 22 Aug 2002 01:16:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m4.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 22 Aug 2002 01:16:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO neofelis.ixazon.lan) (208.150.110.21) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 22 Aug 2002 01:16:23 -0000 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id A68883C485; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 21:16:22 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] The number of dogs. Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 21:16:19 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: In-Reply-To: X-Spamtrap: fesmri@ixazon.dynip.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0208212116190K.01574@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com From: Pierre Abbat X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=92712300 On Wednesday 21 August 2002 19:56, Jorge Llambias wrote: > I can't say for sure what {li mo'e le gerku} means, but > one theory holds that it is the dimensioned number > "all the dogs", like {li mo'e ci gerku} would give the > dimensioned number "3 dogs". "All the dogs" might work > for "the number of dogs", but where would you use it? > Not in a context that asks for a bare number. I think {li mo'e le gerku} is meaningless. {li mo'e pa molro}, on the other hand, sounds like a reasonable thing to call Avogadro's number. As to the number of dogs, I agree with {terkancu}. phma