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la djan cusku di'e
And Rosta scripsit: > Mr Ma'u (alias Mr Za'uno, Mr Number, PA-kind) is the kind of all > numbers greater than 0, used as a quantifier when the most we can > say is that there is more than 0 of something. > > Used as a digit in combination with other digits, it could do > something similar and generalize over 0-9. So the 1990s would > be {pa so so Mr.-Ma'u}. {pa Mr.-Ma'u ji'i} might give you 1-100. > {pa Mr.-Ma'u} might by stipulation give you 1-10.These seem contradictory: Mr.-Ma'u as stand-alone can't be zero, but Mr.-Ma'uas digit must be zero. Furthermore, Mr.-Ma'u by itself on the *second* interpretation would be 0-9.
He is conflating Mr. Number with Mr. Digit, something which is nonsense, but very Lojbanic.
And further furthermore, I do not understand how the rules for Kinds apply to things like numbers, that are inherently noematic already. How is theKind of 9 different from just 9? The Kind of "9" (mo'e so) is intelligible,but not the Kind of 9 (li so).
I don't think the Kind of 9 is different from just 9, but he is talking of the Kind of namcu, of which 9 is a subkind. mu'o mi'e xorxes _________________________________________________________________The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail