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Discussion of "anpeza'ofau"
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Comment #3:
Re: temci and
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gleki (Fri Mar 25 06:47:13 2016)
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krtisfranks wrote: > krtisfranks wrote: > > Allowed of uses of "temci" seem to be at least poorly motivated to me
> if > > we take it to mean strictly "duration". It is often used in order to mean > > > "time", which is different from duration in the same way that "space" is > > different from "length". > > Unless it means "(time) interval", in which case there is no good word for > "duration" in the sense of the Lebesgue measure of that interval. (I would > say that "cabyku'e" is an ill-formed lujvo.) > > In this situation, we have the additional problem of having neither a word > for "time" as a dimension (just as "spatial n-dimensional interval" does > not mean "n-dimensional space" as a dimension) nor a word for the Lebesgue > measure of time intervals ("duration" as a 'length').
duration is usually ditcu if that's relevant, it's a known and quite often used exp. gismu.
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Comment #4:
Re: temci and
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Curtis W Franks (Fri Mar 25 10:32:08 2016)
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gleki wrote: > krtisfranks wrote: > > krtisfranks wrote: > > > Allowed of uses of "temci" seem to be at least poorly motivated to me > > > if > > > we take it to mean strictly "duration". It is often used in order to > mean > > > > > "time", which is different from duration in the same way that "space"
> is > > > different from "length". > > > > Unless it means "(time) interval", in which case there is no good word > for > > "duration" in the sense of the Lebesgue measure of that interval. (I > would > > say that "cabyku'e" is an ill-formed lujvo.) > > > > In this situation, we have the additional problem of having neither a > word > > for "time" as a dimension (just as "spatial n-dimensional interval" does > > not mean "n-dimensional space" as a dimension) nor a word for the > Lebesgue > > measure of time intervals ("duration" as a 'length'). > > > duration is usually ditcu if that's relevant, it's a known and quite > often used exp. gismu.
Ah, I forgot about that. It is relevant, as it is exactly what is needed. Then we are good!
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