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On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 06:45:29AM -0700, Jorge Llamb?as 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.

Err, what?

lo djacu cu klani li re lo kabri

Read klani a bit more carefully.

> Another possibility is to use the number "2 cups" as a quantifier
> of {djacu}:
>
> vei mo'e re kabri ve'o djacu

That works too.

-Robin

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