Re: [jboske] Re: Unique == Misterhood? (was: lo'e gadri: can we converge towards aresolution?

[John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>]

Jordan DeLong scripsit:

> But "le djacu" *can* refer to any amount of water. "lei djacu" is
> a lojbanmass of those individual amounts. A single "le djacu" is
> only a mass in the english sense of "mass nouns" and whatnot.
> 
> So, if I have 3 bottles of water, they can be individually "le
> djacu" or massively "lei djacu". Likewise, if I'm talking about
> the 7 oceans, they can be individually "le ze djacu" or lojbanmassively
> "lei ze djacu".

I agree with every word of this.

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