From phma@oltronics.net Fri Sep 01 14:25:10 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14443 invoked from network); 1 Sep 2000 21:25:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m1.onelist.org with QMQP; 1 Sep 2000 21:25:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO neofelis.ixazon.lan) (24.93.80.251) by mta3 with SMTP; 1 Sep 2000 21:25:09 -0000 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id 048FB3C55B; Fri, 1 Sep 2000 17:25:07 -0400 (EDT) To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] How many? Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 17:24:03 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.29.2] Content-Type: text/plain References: <0009011404290G.05372@neofelis> <20000901204500.11563.qmail@pi.meson.org> In-Reply-To: <20000901204500.11563.qmail@pi.meson.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00090117250702.00948@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com From: Pierre Abbat X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 4193 >The trouble is that {ta} refers to some *particular* thing/s you're >indicating in some way, not "all the ones out there." > >For "how many fish are there?" Mmm... How about: > >lo'i se finpe cu xomei I meant "there" as if I were pointing at an aquarium. phma