Robin's gadri Proposal
On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 02:02:51PM -0700, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
>
> --- Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> > 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?
No, I was confused.
-Robin
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