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No.1523  

How do you say "fifty or sixty people" without repeating "prenu", i.e. connecting only numbers? Also, is there a way to say "the [8 or 9]th day" without repeating "moi"? Thank you.

>> No.1524  

vei muno .a xano ve'o prenu
lo vei bi .a so ve'o moi le'i djedi

I think.

>> No.1527  

>>1524

{vei mu no a xa no prenu} looks correct, although jbofi'e rejects it for some reason. (Although strictly speaking, "or" should be {onai}.)

Unfortunately, the same trick can't be used with {moi}. (And what's {le'i} doing there?) I think the following is possible: {le me li bi a so me'u moi djedi}; but jbofi'e crashes again. {le bi moi ja so moi djedi} is shorter.

>> No.1528  

watch out: bare numbers are not sumti, so li bi a so shouldn't work.

>> No.1529  

>>1527

> (And what's {le'i} doing there?)

It was meant to be parallel to the examples in CLL Chapter 18, but those don't have gadri involved, so I messed up.

>> No.1530  

>>1523

For "fifty or sixty people" in the sense of "around fifty or sixty people" (which would be the usual sense of "fifty or sixty") I would say "lo muno ji'i xano prenu". Similarly "lo bi ji'i so moi djedi" for "around the 8th or 9th day".

In the rare case that a precise logical connective is actually meant then >>1527 should do it.

>> No.1531  

>>1528

"li (bi a so)" should work, because "bi a so" is a mex, but jbofi'e doesn't seem to be aware that operands can be connected with ".a"

>> No.1532  

>>1528

([zo'o] Cool name)

>> No.1536  

>>1530

{lo mu no ji'i xa no prenu} is "five thousand and (approximately) sixty people", according to the CLL. http://jbotcan.org/docs/cll/c18/s9.html

{ji'i mu mu} or {mu ji'i mu} might be better, despite the odd appearance. {mu no'o} is another possibility.

>> No.1537  

>>1536

Yet another possibility is {vei ji'i mu no bi'o ji'i xa no prenu}.

As for the "(8 or 9)th day" thing, the grammar could use a change here. The rule that says "(number | lerfu-string) MOI" could be changed to "operand-3 MOI". Actually, almost all the places where 'quantifier' and 'number' are referenced could be changed to 'operand-3', I think.



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