From a.rosta@dtn.ntl.com Sat Jul 28 14:30:33 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: a.rosta@dtn.ntl.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 28 Jul 2001 21:30:33 -0000 Received: (qmail 89876 invoked from network); 28 Jul 2001 21:30:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 28 Jul 2001 21:30:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO relay3-gui.server.ntli.net) (194.168.4.200) by mta2 with SMTP; 28 Jul 2001 21:30:31 -0000 Received: from m189-mp1-cvx1b.bir.ntl.com ([62.255.40.189] helo=andrew) by relay3-gui.server.ntli.net with smtp (Exim 3.03 #2) id 15QbQ6-0003YF-00 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Sat, 28 Jul 2001 22:14:47 +0100 To: Subject: RE: [lojban] Re: rupnu Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 22:29:44 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 From: "And Rosta" How does one talk about measurement units, lengths, monetary values, etc. in the abstract? That has, how does one talk about the length 2 metres, as opposed to about things that are 2 metres in length, in the way that one can talk not only about remei but also about li re? There must be a well-known answer to this, but I don't know it, and I can only think of {ka ce'u mitre/rupnu li re} = "2 metres/quid", on the presumption that {li re} = {ka ce'u re mei}. --And.