From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Mon May 22 17:29:28 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Mon, 22 May 2006 17:29:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1FiKlp-0001KZ-DX for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Mon, 22 May 2006 17:29:09 -0700 Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com ([64.233.162.201]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1FiKlm-0001KR-BR for lojban-list@lojban.org; Mon, 22 May 2006 17:29:09 -0700 Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id f1so1286956nzc for ; Mon, 22 May 2006 17:29:05 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=W2mooPCoNNAT+SAvBCetRFCkqUjLepwwMEdF/kovv8pgle83iqjmoVo2OKlQgN/DezHyM7QYloilwYQ9SxvSQoxwLzH46RlQ1+H8iBpD6vWQ884bnb2/4gm/tfFqtT7vv4BiyIyvNv8T81u3p6xumFxPHq75IT7erVmeBsbE/50= Received: by 10.36.224.62 with SMTP id w62mr6923536nzg; Mon, 22 May 2006 17:29:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.153.14 with HTTP; Mon, 22 May 2006 17:29:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 18:29:02 -0600 From: "Maxim Katcharov" To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: A (rather long) discussion of {all} In-Reply-To: <925d17560605221708q3d88efe8teddf51b3f0e1103c@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis Content-Disposition: inline References: <925d17560605160731j379ecfdbo42862a88433e112c@mail.gmail.com> <925d17560605211735x2bc459acw4f08020b726d5d6b@mail.gmail.com> <925d17560605211914t5e0167ebx395b8ecbf89b2032@mail.gmail.com> <925d17560605220825n5df40f6bs6ea5d63c881dee2@mail.gmail.com> <925d17560605221615gd0fcb7fj4c97cd7a9275a1b2@mail.gmail.com> <925d17560605221708q3d88efe8teddf51b3f0e1103c@mail.gmail.com> X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-archive-position: 11662 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: maxim.katcharov@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On 5/22/06, Jorge Llambías wrote: > On 5/22/06, Maxim Katcharov wrote: > > > I think I see what you're getting at, but I don't quite follow. Could > > you provide an example? > > lo ro mapku cu melbi gi'e ku'i du'e mei do'e lo nu mi bevri > "All the hats were beautiful, but too many for me to carry." > > None of the hats was "too many" by itself, they were too many together. > I may be a bit confused - why doesn't ro lo mapku cu melbi gi'e ku'i du'e mei do'e lo nu mi bevri work here? This seems to be the problem of masses that John described much earlier, how you couldn't really say "all the students surrounded the building and wore hats". To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.