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

That's not a sumti, it's a bridi, and it's practically what I
wrote above. We were looking for a way to say "two cups of water".

> Read klani a bit more carefully.

How does any of what I wrote conflict with the definition of klani?

> > 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.

Unfortunately, we can't get rid of the bracketing.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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