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xorxes:
> la and cusku di'e
> > > Huh? "pa lo re si'e means nothing to me, since I have trouble
> > > contemplating a si'e greater than 1
> >
> >Read the ma'oste (entry for si'e) and you will understand. In learning
> >Lojban it is important that you should read the ma'oste
>
> The ma'oste defines {<n> si'e} as "one <n>th", and CLL repeats
> this definition, but I suspect the intention was for <n> to
> be the fraction rather than the denominator. The BF should
> clarify this
The baselined documents seem to allow both, which seems a good
thing, since it makes fractions of form 1/n appropriately
shorter.
--And.