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On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 6:58 PM, selpa'i <seladwa@hidden.email> wrote: > > la nnca nmra'aka > ? I'm two years. > > But a person can't be a year... I have no problem with "mi nanca li re" in Lojban. >Do I misunderstand the numeric > predicates? Right now it just seems like a type error. It's like saying > "I am two tables", except it seems even worse. Please explain. Well, I suppose we could distinguish counting numbers from measuring numbers, but I would rather do it with a modifier than with the basic number word. In general I wouldn't mind saying that a count is just a special type of measure. co ma'a xrxe