X-Digest-Num: 271 Message-ID: <44114.271.1501.959273825@eGroups.com> Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 16:22:07 +0200 From: "Adam Raizen" Subject: Re: banzu xipaso X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 1501 Content-Length: 980 Lines: 40 la xod cusku di'e > From: xod > > On Sat, 30 Oct 1999 reciproc@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca wrote: > > > > lo jetnu cu zemei > > > > Seems to mean > > > > some truths are a mass of 7 members > > > > Which does not make any sense, unless "lo" is replaced with "loi", which > > should make it mean "there are 7 truths". > > > Using loi would imply that their truth is a collective property, possibly > not shared by each individual member. Is each fact true in isolation? > Then use "le, lo", which can be used for plurals too. > > But x1 of n-"mei" is a mass! So, we might try > That doesn't mean that we can't have "individual" masses. We could have several different masses, which we think of as individuals, but whose internal structure is thought of as a mass. > lo ze jetnu cu zasti > That implies that there are exactly 7 things which are true in the universe; also, zasti is a bit vague. How about just zemei jetnu co'o mi'e adam