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There is of course a particular period of six years that you are younger than I but that is probably not what is meant here and so anyold period will do. I agree it would be nicer if we had a unit concept, but the way that "younger by six years " has developed makes that difficult ({lo nanca xamei} is weird in other ways, as is {lo xavnanca}).
pc
Jorge Llambías <jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar> wrote:

> By popular request, here are some examples of the non-universal
> (prescribed) usage of {lo}. I will probably find more if I continue to
> look.
Are these supposed to be problematic for the proposed {lo}?
They are not.

> do citme'a mi lo nanca be li xa
> You're 6 years younger than me.

This one makes more sense with {lo} refering generically to
a period of six years rather than quantifying over periods
od six years: "there is at least one period of six years
such that you're younger than my by that period"? Not wrong,
but weird. The natural thing to say is that the difference
in our ages is the single entity "6 years".