| In a message dated 5/23/2001 3:42:09 PM Central Daylight Time,
rob@twcny.rr.com writes: Okay, I see this translation referring to {loi danlu} and calling it a I haven't gotten to the details yet, but this one of those recurring discussions: What does {loi broda} mean? The short answer is "the mass of all lo broda," but that proves to be ignotum per ignotius and leads to various stories about what a mass is. One of these (Quine or Trobriand Islanders?) is that the mass is an individual, each what we would call individual broda, is merely a manifestation of that individual (I think this may owe something to Christian theology, too), Mr. Broda. Another view is that a mass is a kind of goo and each individual is a piece of that goo. Yet another is that a mass is a team of some sort. And there are several other tales, which I am trying to pull up out of the archives and put into some semblance of order for my (curiouser and curiouser as I "correct" problems) website. Reminders of these would be very welcome. |