Subject: [lojban] Re: tu'a zo tordu .e zo cmalu

From: Jordan DeLong <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 10:04:04 -0500

On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 08:40:18AM -0400, [email-masked] wrote:
> In a message dated 10/1/2002 9:38:31 PM Central Daylight Time, 
> [email-masked] writes:
> <<
> > ni'o ma te frica zo tordu zo cmalu .i .uanai
> > >>
> {cmalu} is comparative, not necessarily measured, and not necessarily 
> physical or one-dimensional
> {tordu} seems to be always measured and physical and one-dimensional

I don't see how cmalu is more/less comparative/measured. They both
have an x3 place. But the one-dimension distinction works fine for
me.

> That said, {tordu} does seem to be {tordu} in longest dimension agains a 
> measure (the start of a Lojban-Lojban dictionary?)
> 
> Why {tu'a}?

Why not?

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