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Robin's gadri Proposal

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Yes, Lojban needs to do something about measurements. I thought at one time that maybe {ni} could be used somehow, but it does not work well with things like water, even if it gets clearly separated from {jei}. A good general solution would help, but I don't think that the tanru (or lujvo) solution is the way to go either and even the "obvious" quantifier route has problems (not least the complexity of such locutions).

Jorge LlambĂ­as <jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar> wrote:
pc:
> I suggest the same might be said for
> goo, which can, in Lojban, be viewed as a kind of collective, and one that
> can take numeration: "three teaspoons of salt" or, more clearly, "two cups of
> water." Of course it is not clear where these numerations go, but the "this
> is in cups number two of water" does not seem the best solution.

It's not even clear how to say that. Probably something like:

ti noi djacu cu klani li re lo kabri
This, which is water, amounts to 2 measured in cups.

But {lo djacu} is not a sumti there. As a sumti:

lo djacu je klani be li re bei lo kabri
Water and amount 2 in cups.

Another possibility is to use the number "2 cups" as a quantifier
of {djacu}:

vei mo'e re kabri ve'o djacu

mu'o mi'e xorxes





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