Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: How many?

From: "Mark E. Shoulson" <[email-masked]>
Date: 1 Sep 2000 21:45:30 -0000

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>From: "michael helsem" <[email-masked]>
>Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 21:46:57 -0000
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>--- In [email-masked], Pierre Abbat <phma@o...> wrote:
> li'o
>>"how many species of fish are there" 
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>ma ni se finpe

Mmm. That's more "how fish-species-y is (something unspecified)?" Just
like {le ni blanu} is the amount of blueness (of something), {le ni se
finpe} is the amount of being-a-fish-species (of something). Just HOW
fish-species-y can YOU be? :)

~mark