X-Digest-Num: 107 Message-ID: <44114.107.588.959273824@eGroups.com> Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 23:38:53 -0400 (EDT) From: xod Subject: Re: di'e preti zo nu X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 588 Content-Length: 869 Lines: 26 On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Jorge J. Llambías wrote: > > le ci verba cu citka lo plise > Each of the three children eats an apple. > > In that example with {lo} each child might be eating a different apple. > Had I used {le plise}, the meaning necessarily would have been that > each child ate the same apple (or apples, but each child eats them all). I don't see this. And if it's true, it seems dangerous to associate the fact that there is one apple vs many apples, with the fact that the things are objectively apples, as opposed to something that it simply being called an apple for the sake of this discussion. I want to be able to express all four combinations of {one apple, many apples} and {objective, subjective}. ----- I've detected a vast, multi-wing conspiracy to provide me with Slack. They can't fool me!!