From richard@rrbcurnow.freeuk.com Sun Nov 12 22:41:44 2000 Return-Path: X-Sender: richard@rrbcurnow.freeuk.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-6_2_1); 13 Nov 2000 06:41:44 -0000 Received: (qmail 82726 invoked from network); 13 Nov 2000 06:41:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 13 Nov 2000 06:41:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO amersham.mail.uk.easynet.net) (195.40.1.45) by mta1 with SMTP; 13 Nov 2000 06:41:43 -0000 Received: from rrbcurnow.freeuk.com (tnt-2-141.easynet.co.uk [195.40.196.141]) by amersham.mail.uk.easynet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E72917687 for ; Mon, 13 Nov 2000 06:49:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: from richard by rrbcurnow.freeuk.com with local (Exim 2.02 #2) id 13vDId-00002R-00 for lojban@egroups.com; Mon, 13 Nov 2000 06:41:03 +0000 Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 06:41:03 +0000 To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Numbers and fractions Message-ID: <20001113064103.A147@rrbcurnow.freeuk.com> Reply-To: Richard Curnow Mail-Followup-To: lojban@egroups.com References: <0011122105410Q.00927@neofelis> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i-nntp In-Reply-To: <0011122105410Q.00927@neofelis>; from phma@oltronics.net on Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 09:02:55PM -0500 From: Richard Curnow On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 09:02:55PM -0500, Pierre Abbat wrote: > How many dogs bite me in each of these sentences?: > > re le pano gerku cu batci mi 2 dogs (out of some pre-understood group of 10 dogs) > i pimu le pano gerku cu batci mi 0.5 dog (!) (again, out of a pre-understood group of 10) > i repimu le pano gerku cu batci mi 2.5 dogs > i fi'u le pano gerku cu batci mi 1.6... dogs > i re le pimu gerku cu batci mi 2 dogs out of a pre-supposed 0.5 dogs - I don't think this makes any sense. Most of these convey the gruesome image of part of a dog being involved (presumably in retaliation for the act that put it in that state ?!). Perhaps the following kind of usage is more useful... pimu lei pano gerku cu batci mi meaning half the group of 10 dogs bite me. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Richard P. Curnow rpc@myself.com Weston-super-Mare United Kingdom http://go.to/richard.curnow/