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On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 10:08 PM, Jacob Errington <nictytan@gmail.com> wrot=
e:
> On 12 July 2012 20:13, Jorge Llamb=EDas <jjllambias@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 7:47 PM, Jacob Errington <nictytan@gmail.com> wr=
ote:
>>
>>> The useful interpretation of {lu'i ci lo mu nanmu} is "the set
>>> composed of three of the five men"
>>
>> But there isn't one such set, there are 10 of them. Is it any one of
>> them, all of them?
>
> .a'u I'd never really considered that aspect of it. I always assumed
> the three men to be those that the speaker had in mind, given the
> nature of {zo'e} implicitly used by {lo}. Of course, that may not be
> the most useful interpretation.

The nature of "zo'e" concerns the five men, but says nothing about
which three of them are involved. You could have "ko'a goi lo mu nanmu
[...] lu'i ci ko'a" with the same issue arising.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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