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On 6/13/05, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.hn.org> wrote:
> Putting a number after {lo} is different before
> and after xorlo: before, {re lo ci gerku} meant two of the three dogs which
> are all the dogs there are 

It still means that. It just doesn't mean that these are all
the dogs there are on Earth, or in the whole Universe, or that
ever lived or will live, but just those in the contextual universe
of discourse.

>(you now say {re le ro ci lo gerku}); now, it
> means six dogs, which are in two groups of three.

That's {re loi ci gerku} = {re gunma be lo ci gerku},
"two (groups of) three dogs".

mu'o mi'e xorxes