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On Thursday 20 October 2011 12:32:45 John E. Clifford wrote:
> Sorry, don"t see how what you say differs from what I say: {pi mu lo plise
> cu broda} means that a subset of lo plise with half it's cardinality
> satisfies (in some unspecified -- but hopefully obvious from context  --
> way) {broda}.

{pimu lo plise} is half of {pa lo plise}. {pimu lo plise cu nenri le tanxe} 
means "half an apple is in the box", not "half of the apples are in the box". 
I think the correct way to say "half the apples" or "one of every two 
apples", without splitting apples, is "pa lo'e re plise".

Pierre
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