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> <<
> 4- Then as {za'ure'u} indicates an additional instance,
> {piza'ure'u} can indicate an additional increment in the formation
> of an instance, and then {pime'ire'u} would analogously give
> a decrement:
>
> le xirma cu pime'ire'u bajra
> The horse is running less.
> >>
> Here I think I have lost the analogy. From what went before, I
get that
> {piza'ure'u} would mean getting more of a total instance than just
the
> beginning.
Yes, doing one more step towards total instancehood.
> So, does {pime'ire'u} mean less that the beginning. Or is it
> meant to mean "less than all" -- though perhaps much beyond the
beginning.
Less than whatever stage we were at before. There is
no analogy with the integer case here, because there is
no way to do something "one less time".
> I
> any case, I don't quite see what "The horse is running less" means
here --
> "than it used to"? =? "covers less distance in unit time"
or ?"takes fewer
> paces in unit time" or (going back to an earlier worry not
mentioned) "is
> falling more nearly into a different gait from running"
Any of those, I think. That the horse is running is somehow
becoming less true.
> Taking the starting case of becoming yellow,
> I suppose that the initial situation is totally non-yellow, the
final one
> about as yellow as it gets and the question to be covered is then
how rapidly
> distinct items in the sequence of intermediate states succeed one
another and
> whether this rate is constant or increasing or decreasing or all
over the
> place.
I can't get that much detail in. Just {piza'ure'u pelxu} for
yellowing and {pime'ire'u pelxu} for de-yellowing.
> In that sense, I don't exactly see what your proposal -- which has
> interest in its own right -- does for the initial problem. But, as
I said, I
> missed some of what happened to that problem along the way.
It seems that having particular words for linear and exponential
increase is extremely over-specific. I don't think it would
correspond to anything in natlangs, would it?
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