At 10:00 PM 04/18/2001 +0100, And Rosta wrote:
John to Avital: > > I mean, <nu prenu kei> is lo valsi, isn't it? > > No. I think this is an unresolved issue, whether or not we simplify the claim to "<nu prenu kei> cu valsi" (or, equivalently, "The Beatles cu prenu"). The unresolved issue is whether pa valsi is a single word (in which case the claim is false) or a single amount of wordage (in which case the claim is true). I guess usage favours the former.
A single word is the smallest unit of valsi (valsi selci). In general, count nouns are counts of selci, though we have examples of mass nouns that are counted otherwise (ci birje - don't ask me what a birje selci would be).
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