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Am 15.10.2012 00:15, schrieb Jorge Llambías:
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.
I know, me neither, but in that case you have a single period of time which measures two years. In the Xorban sentence, there are two seperate years, aren't there?
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.
Oh my, now I wonder how to get all the distributive/non-distributive quantifying rules into Xorban. It would be easy to copy the rest of xorlo as well, of course, but I don't know.
Are there even enough systematic CV's left for the modifier numbers? mu'o -- pilno zo le xu .i lo dei bangu cu se cmene zo lojbo .e nai zo lejbo doị mèlbi mlenì'u .i do càtlu ki'u ma fe la xàmpre ŭu .i do tìnsa càrmi gi'e sìrji se tàrmi .i taị bo pu cìtka lo gràna ku .