Re: [jboske] RE: lo'ie != lo'ei

[Nick Nicholas <opoudjis@optushome.com.au>]

cu'u la xorxes

As one argument against Mr Doctor = loi mikce

> >Perhaps. Like I say, though, I don't know that Mr Doctor is lo'e
> >mikce. In fact, I don't know yet that s/he isn't {loi mikce} after
> >all. Massification suppresses individuation, so the choosing of
> >opacity vs. transparency is sidestepped there too. Isn't it?
>
> Yes, (whole) masses are singular and thus sidestep opacity
> vs. transparency, but only if you were really really sick
> would you need the whole mass of all doctors to work on your
> case (and you'd have to be very rich to pay them too, I doubt
> any social security would cover all that).

Sorry, but that's anti-CLL. loi = pisu'o loi ro . If one doctor cures 
me, Mr Doctor cures me; that's Lojban baseline, and that's still my 
starting point. In fact, this behaviour is how come we know {loi mikce} 
is Mr Doctor, and not "a plurality of doctors". So I dispute your 
invocation of whole masses: {loi mikce} is not {pi ro loi mikce}.

Quite startling for me to discover, first that Mr Broda had gone from 
loi to lo'e, and then that it should be loi after all... Not a given 
you'll agree with either, though. :-)

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