Re: Expressing ages

Rachel Klippenstein scripsit:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to figure out how age is expressed in
> Ikanirae Seru, and I'm interested in knowing how other
> languages do it.
>
> The English expression "I am X (years old)" somehow
> seems rather illogical to me.
>
> I also thought of "I have X years"
That's Spanish style.

In Lojban you say "The age of me is-in-years the-number-X".
All the measurement words are of that form: the measurable thing as
the subject, a number as the object.

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