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[lojban-beginners] Re: Mass



On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 6:24 AM, tijlan <jbotijlan@gmail.com> wrote:
> There is a Wiki article on the mathematical "set", which is what
> "lo'i" is about. But I can't seem to find one on "mass" that explains
> the nature of "loi". Is there any alternative term to "mass" in the
> sense of "loi" that we can look up on Wikipedia?

I can't find any specific article, but see "Collective vs.
distributive predicates" in:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predicate_(grammar)

"loi" marks the subject of a collective predicate. It's similar to the
role of "together" in English.

mu'o mi'e xorxes