From jjllambias@hotmail.com Wed Jan 26 11:43:24 2000 X-Digest-Num: 345 Message-ID: <44114.345.1848.959273825@eGroups.com> Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 11:43:24 PST From: "Jorge Llambias" Subject: Re: comments about Re: Translation needed la adam cusku di'e > > ji'irevoki'o prenu cu mrobi'o ca ro djedi > > ri'a le nu xagji a le xagjyki'i rinka > > > > But that says that the same 24000 people die every day! > > We need to change the order of the terms: > > > > ca ro djedi ji'irevoki'o prenu cu mrobi'o > > ri'a le nu xagji a le xagjyki'i rinka > >I didn't think that the position of seltcita sumti made any difference. >Does the book mention this? Probably not explicitly, but tagged terms behave just as regular terms, so the order of quantification should work just as for regular terms. > > i pizemu lei mrobi'o cu verba li me'imu > >How do we know that we're not talking about children under 5 >months? It's just possible enough that would be the case. My personal interpretation is that x2 of verba is in years. I don't know of any logical way in Lojban of filling a slot with dimensioned numbers, so I take all places that require a number as dimensionless. co'o mi'e xorxes ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com