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On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 01:38:54AM -0500, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> On Monday 27 December 2004 01:03, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 12:57:10AM -0500, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> > > Does it matter whether one says {pimu} or {fi'ure}, or
> > > {pira'epavorebimuze} or {fi'uze}?
> >
> > xorxes believes that we have only handled the first (and
> > possibly the third, but I have *no* idea what it means). He
> > believes, IIRC, that we should handle fi'u as an outer
> > quantifier in the section for fi'u, and I care not at all so
> > I've accepted that.
>
> li pira'epavorebimuze du li fi'uze.

No, actually. One is a number, the other is a fraction that
represents that number, *sort* of. "li fi'u ze" is "one over seven";
the fraction you gave is "li pa fe'i ze". To what extent these
things are identical is unclear. Certainly they are different
words, at the least.

> What about {cifi'ure}? I think, if {fi'ure loi xa bakni} means
> half of a group of six cows,

That's what xorxes wants to argue. I don't know what he wants "fi'u
re loi bakni " to mean (although I expect "one out of every two",
which is not the same as "half", exactly).

-Robin

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