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On 9/8/05, xah lee <xah@xahlee.org> wrote:
> 
> here for example, who's to think what juice should be a mass or not?
> All a person really want to say is some juice, but lojban forces
> certain classification of meaning. 

You can say {lo jisra} and that's fine. {lo} is the unmarked gadri,
no classification implied, you can't go wrong with it.

(Still, I think you are right that Lojban is not as easy as touted,
but in most cases you are not required to make a distinction if 
you don't need or don't want to make it.)

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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