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Discussion of "tersu'imei"
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Comment #3:
Re: n-somes versus cardinalities
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Ilmen (Thu Feb 4 12:24:33 2016)
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krtisfranks wrote: > I suggest that you use the term "terbrimei" or something of the like for the expression of the idea of arity.
Well I like "terbrimei", so I'll probably make it a synonym of "tersu'imei", so that people can choose the one they prefer. I'm unclear on what a tersu'i is actually; according to some it's just a number (the number of the argument place). That's the kind of situation where having official usage examples along with the official gismu definition would have been very helpful. When I created the word tersu'imei, I was needing a Lojban word for this meaning and had a hard time finding an appropriate letter string, so I've ended up with tersu'imei.
As for mei, the x1 is now considered to be a plural, and not a mass/gunma (see the BPFK section for cmavo), so you can say "lo gerku cu ci mei" ("the dogs are threesome").
mi'e la .ilmen. mu'o
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Comment #4:
Re: n-somes versus cardinalities
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Curtis W Franks (Fri Feb 5 03:57:44 2016)
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Ilmen wrote: > krtisfranks wrote: > > I suggest that you use the term "terbrimei" or something of the like for > the expression of the idea of arity. > > Well I like "terbrimei", so I'll probably make it a synonym of > "tersu'imei", so that people can choose the one they prefer. > I'm unclear on what a tersu'i is actually; according to some it's just a > number (the number of the argument place). That's the kind of situation > where having official usage examples along with the official gismu > definition would have been very helpful. > When I created the word tersu'imei, I was needing a Lojban word for this > meaning and had a hard time finding an appropriate letter string, so I've
> ended up with tersu'imei. > > As for mei, the x1 is now considered to be a plural, and not a mass/gunma > (see the BPFK section for cmavo), so you can say "lo gerku cu ci mei" ("the > dogs are threesome"). > > mi'e la .ilmen. mu'o
Oh, yeah, I forgot about that. But the point remains. In my interpretation, it does not reference a cardinality but some sort of collection of some number of elements.
I do agree that we needed a word for the idea. I had been sort of thinking on it for a while but never came up with a decent solution.
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