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> arosta@hidden.email writes:
> <<
>
> OK.
>
> le ni ce'u nenri le dakli
> the amount of things in the bag
>
> = da poi mo'e ke'a de nenri le dakli
>
> >>
> Neither the Englsih nor the Lojban translation looks right here. {le
> ni ce'u nenri le dakli} is a function that returns a quantity of some
> sort (I suspect distances, but others are possible) for a sumti, just
> as {ka ce'u} returns a property and {du'u ce'u} a proposition and
> {jei ce'u} a truth value.
>
> <<
> Would {le ni ce'u prami ce'u} mean "the amount of lover--beloved
> pairings"? That would be much harder to say in some other way.
> >>
> Not if that means "How many such pairs there are." It is
> the-amount-of-love function.
>
> I think mucking about with {ni ce'u} before you have {ni ko'a} down
> pat gets into all kinds of unnecessary problem, and. conversely, once
> {ni ko'a} is under control, {ni ce'u} raises no problems at all --
> except for being kind of odd.
Well I have {ni ko'a} under control -- I think we all do, even if
xod thinks that jei can do ni's job. But I don't know what ni+ce'u
means. I invite people to tell me.
--And.