From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Mon Jun 26 18:20:32 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Mon, 26 Jun 2006 18:20:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1Fv2FS-0003AQ-Ex for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 18:20:14 -0700 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.184]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1Fv2FR-0003AJ-Ki for lojban-list@lojban.org; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 18:20:14 -0700 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id m19so662592nfc for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 18:20:12 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=PMJPkpB5jUdq3vS9tho64FMEvDZq2+QxGEwbnAXqiSEY5mO6wmGU7kws5FD6dr6e3TptvufPzhmHRCoAVjr2262tSsLSwdaxh7yXC8nbAUvFU8/1U/ASeQp6OHDlpDPiLExU8MQhV0OteZrRdJzpkhxsKzKmPUKUW6dLjKDewHU= Received: by 10.49.81.12 with SMTP id i12mr5190089nfl; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 18:20:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.49.92.1 with HTTP; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 18:20:12 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <737b61f30606261820y44aee9fn6a00372589ba3090@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 20:20:12 -0500 From: "Chris Capel" To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] plural markers? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Spam-Score: -2.4 (--) X-archive-position: 11832 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: pdf23ds@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list What are good ways to replace the English plural noun form? As I understand, one should generally avoid lV'i, as one generally doesn't want to talk about the set of X *as a set*, but that lVi can be good? What about {su'o}, used alone? (It parses.) Other ways? If I'm not completely mistaken, it would be preferable to use lVi in situations where the group of things as a group, collectively, have some property or take some action, and {su'o} in situations where they individually do so? Chris Capel -- "What is it like to be a bat? What is it like to bat a bee? What is it like to be a bee being batted? What is it like to be a batted bee?" -- The Mind's I (Hofstadter, Dennet) 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.