Subject: Re: rupnu

From: "Adam Raizen" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 20:40:18 -0000

la xorxes cusku di'e

> la and cusku di'e
> 
> >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}.
> 
> Sounds right, but what would you say about them?
> {le ka ce'u mitre li re} can be used for example in:
> 
> ti ta dunli le ka ce'u mitre li re
> This equals that in their 2 meter length.
> 
> ti ta frica le ka ce'u mitre makau
> This differs from that in their length.

.i pau le ka djedi li so'o kei lo djedi be li so'o li so'o zo'u ma ni
la jbonunsla cu clani

mu'o mi'e adam