Re: [jboske] unresolved debates

["Jorge Llambias" <jjllambias@hotmail.com>]

la djan cusku di'e

> And Rosta scripsit:
>
> > * Usage overwhelmingly supports it; pretty much all prior usage
> > of so'V would be invalidated.
>
> The first clause may be true, but the second is surely false. Nothing
> prevents "so'a" from meaning "all but an insignificant number" in 
> particular
> cases. I only object to drawing rigorous conclusions that this 
> relationship
> always holds.

I'm still not clear on what your position is. What do you think
of:

1- so'e gerku cu nenri le kumfa
2- so'i gerku cu nenri le kumfa

A- They are both extremely unlikely, on the grounds that the
number of dogs that can fit in a room is very small compared
to the total number of dogs that exist.

B- They are both reasonable things to say when the room
contains a number of dogs that is large compared to the
number of dogs that are usually in a room.

C- (1) is extremely unlikely and (2) is quite reasonable,
because that's how we would use "most" and "many" in English.

Your position is either A or B, but I can't tell which one.

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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