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Re: Burning paper
la xorxes cusku di'e
> My problem is how to fill the x2 of {jelca}. From the definition, it seems
that
> a dimensioned number should go there, but there doesn't seem to be any way to
> get such a sumti in Lojban.
> My attempt is:
> loi pelji cu jelca le kelvrfarenxaito be li vomupa
> but this would be correct only if {jelca} meant "x1 burns at the temperature
of
> x2",
> i.e. x2 is something at the relevant temperature, rather than the temperature
> itself.
I suspect the best way is
li vomupa poi se kelvrfarenxaito
or equivalently
lo se kelvrfarenxaito po'u li vomupa
(I usually try and push the mex convertors (e.g. mo'e) for quantities
like this, but they don't seem to help much here.)
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