Subject: Re: [lojban] The number of dogs.

From: Pierre Abbat <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 22:05:41 -0400

On Wednesday 21 August 2002 21:41, Jordan DeLong wrote:
> However, you're clearly wrong evidenced by chap18 ex. 18.4:
> mi viska vei mo'e lo'e lanzu ve'o cinfo
> I see (the typical family)-number of lions
> I see a pride of lions.
>
> Given that, and the other discussion on mo'e, the meaning of li mo'e le
> gerku is what you'd expect. (li mo'e ro le su'o gerku -- the count of all
> the dogs i'm currently describing (i.e., what rlp said)).

mo'e pa lanzu is the number of members in one family. mo'e pa gerku is thus 
the number of members in one dog, but what does that mean? But the number of 
members in one mole is Avogadro's number.

phma