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

From: Jordan DeLong <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 21:22:47 -0500

On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 10:05:41PM -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> 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 numberof 
> members in one mole is Avogadro's number.

.oi mi cortu le stedu

"mo'e pa lanzu" is more likely "one family"... :)

-- 
Jordan DeLong
[email-masked]