If we take lo cinfo to refer to the salie= nt sublattice of the extension of cinfo, then it works fine for all of these, languagely if n= ot precissily. And we can differentiate the cases in a vaiety of ways= , including the relation between the arguments and the predicates. Lojban i= s getting to be a more real language every day.

From: selpa'i <seladwa@gmx.de>
To: lojban@googlegroups.com
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2012 11:38 AM
<= span style=3D"font-weight: bold;">Subject: [lojban] Re: Lions an= d levels and the like

Am Mittwoch, 9. November 2011 17:22:36 UTC+1 schr= ieb clifford:

If someo= ne asks, out of the blue, how many lions there are and I say "About 12,000"= , my answer may be wrong but it is the right sort of answer. If the g= otcha questioner says "no, there are four" I can righteously respond "Hey, = there are five just in our Zoo". If he goes on to explain "The = European (now extinct), the African, the Indian, and the Asiatic", I might = exclaim "Oh, you meant *kinds* of lions!". Yet, had he begun the conv= ersation with "There are four lions: the European, the Asiatic, the Indian,= and the African", I would have understood him fine and had no complaints. = I would equally have no problems with "That lion is the same as the one we = saw yesterday" nor, probably, with "Lion (or lions) is (are) quite tasty, when marinated in monkey-brain sauce and roasted over an open fire", nor "= Lions eat gazelles" nor "A/The lion is/Lions are the second largest cat". &= nbsp;And so on through countless other examples

A = joke I read in the newspaper today:

The teacher asks a student: "Nam= e three animals from Africa."
The student answers: "An elephant and two = lions."

mu'o mi'e la selpa'i

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