From jjllambias@hotmail.com Wed Aug 21 18:31:18 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: jjllambias@hotmail.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_1_0_1); 22 Aug 2002 01:31:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 36615 invoked from network); 22 Aug 2002 01:31:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m15.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 22 Aug 2002 01:31:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hotmail.com) (216.33.241.50) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 22 Aug 2002 01:31:17 -0000 Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 18:31:17 -0700 Received: from 200.69.6.42 by lw8fd.law8.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 01:31:17 GMT To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Bcc: Subject: Re: [lojban] The number of dogs. Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 01:31:17 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 22 Aug 2002 01:31:17.0898 (UTC) FILETIME=[9CB926A0:01C2497B] From: "Jorge Llambias" X-Originating-IP: [200.69.6.42] X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=6071566 X-Yahoo-Profile: jjllambias2000 >From: Robin Lee Powell >On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 11:56:11PM +0000, 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", > >"All the things I am currently describing as dogs", actually. Note the >'le'. Yes, that's what I meant. > > 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. > >And why not, exactly? Because a dimensioned number is not a bare number. Anyway, I might be overreacting prematurely. I will wait to see it in actual use before complaining. :) mu'o mi'e xorxes _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com