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la .i,n cusku di'e

> I _think_ I agree with this.  We appear to be debating the semantics of
> gismu such as {ponse}.  {lo'e kanba cu ponse re tuple} for example.

Actually, "ponse" is not involved; the relevant Lojban bridi is:

	vo da tuple lo'e kanba

which is true, whereas with "re da" it would be false, because "re da" is
"exactly two somethings, neither more or less".

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John Cowan	cowan@snark.thyrsus.com		...!uunet!cbmvax!snark!cowan
			e'osai ko sarji la lojban.