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At 03:05 PM 1/8/03 +0000, Jorge Llambias wrote:
la and cusku di'e >How about "The number of people in this room is increasing by >either 3, 10 or 73 every hour"? Maybe something like: le vi kumfa cu zenba le ka xokau prenu ce'u nenri kei ca ro cacra li ci a li pano a li zeci This room increases in how many people are in it each hour by 3, 10 or 73. But we do need an intensional if we want "the number" as the subject: lo-KIND te kancu be lei prenu pe le vi kumfa cu zenba ca ro cacra fo li ci a li pano a li zeci The number of people in this room increases every hour by 3, 10, or 73.
Why?What is wrong with just converting your first sentence to get what I think is the precisely same translation.
le ka xokau prenu ce'u nenri kei cu selzenba le vi kumfa ca ro cacra li ci a li pano a li zeci lojbab -- lojbab lojbab@hidden.email Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: http://www.lojban.org