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Re: [jboske] xoi'a




la xod cusku di'e

You're actually criticizing the imprecision of the word "plana". It's true
that plana could be measured by girth, or weight. At worst this means I
picked a poor example for my xoi'a'a sentence, not that xoi'a'a is itself
imprecise!

I never said xoi'a'a was imprecise, I said it was too precise.

First we need aspects like "incresing", "decreasing", "fluctuating"
and such. "Increasing linearly" seems far too specialized, and
in most cases I couldn't tell what it means. Is the paper
yellowing linearly? First I'd have to know how to compare
two yellowings at different yellows. We normally don't need
such precision.

mu'o mi'e xorxes



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