Re: clani

[Logical Language Group <lojbab@ACCESS.DIGEX.NET>]

>Though Jorge wasn't talking about "ni", I think his point is still
>good: the abstract property of "length" is "ka mitre", and "length"
>of something (a measure) is "ni mitre".  "ni clani", or "amount of
>longness" is different.  A (subjectively) long thing has "some"; a
>subjectively short thing has none.  A subjectively very long thing
>has a lot.  Similarly, a long thing has no amount of shortness, and
>a very short thing has a lot of shortness.
>
>Otherwise, you have the counter-intuitive result of:
>
>    ta na clani
>--More--
>    .i le ni clani cu cmalu
>
>I'm with Jorge; both the short thing and the long thing have both
>"ka mitre" and "ni mitre", but the short thing has /neither/ "ka
>clani" nor "ni clani".  Something with very little "ni clani" is
>still "clani", just not very much so.

I will disagree because "tordu" != "na clani".  The nature of short things is
that, by a different standard, they could be long things.  Now if you fill
in a  very large standard, even a "long" object will noy be "clani" with
respect to that object.

lojbab
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