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Re: [lojban] Mass/Set
At 01:43 PM 03/11/2000 -0800, Jorge Llambias wrote:
la lojbab cusku di'e
>It better, since most people who eat apples only eat a fraction of them,
>discarding the core.
Yes, I forgot to comment about that. Obviously discarding
the core or the peel still counts as eating an apple, but
does eating half an apple count as eating an apple?
It doesn't in English,
Only to adults %^) Sometimes my kids "eat an apple" and what is left is
easily half.
and I suspect it doesn't count
as {citka lo plise} in Lojban either.
Implicit quantifier su'o normally means "one" but could be "part of one" in
some circumstances. Let us say that I spot someone's head far away
sticking above an obstruction. I would say "I see someone"; "mi viska lo
prenu" even though what I saw was far less than a person (one reason why I
think of individual people as masses, and indeed individual objects of any
kind - if the relevant properties can be met by part of the whole, then we
say it applies to the whole rather as a mass). To clearly say you ate the
whole apple, you can say piropa or piro le pa lo plise.
co'o mi'e xorxes
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