On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 10:52:02PM +0000, Jorge Llambias wrote:
> la djan cusku di'e
> >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.
>
> We all do, I think. Perhaps And will object to "'le djacu'
> is a mass in the english sense of 'mass nouns'". But otherwise
> we all agree, because that's the collective {lei} being described.
How's it the collective lei? I deliberately called it a "lojbanmass"
so as to avoid whatever this "collective" and "substance" crud is.
Lojbanmasses are something which is probably not precisely equivalent
to either.
--
Jordan DeLong - fracture@allusion.net
lu zo'o loi censa bakni cu terzba le zaltapla poi xagrai li'u
sei la mark. tuen. cusku
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