Re: [lojban] noxemol ce'u

[pycyn@aol.com]

In a message dated 9/19/2001 3:34:02 PM Central Daylight Time, nicholas@uci.edu writes:

it
opens the door for things like {cenba le creka}: if you can put in a
quantity, why not put in any atomic variable?

Well, there is something odd about {cenba} anyhow, since it seems that the crucial substituend for {ce'u} does not change and thus we are in Platonic Hell, with the one being the many and all.  But, in fact, what has happened subrosa is that it is times that are different, not things, so the property/quantity/shirt is not {le...ce'u } but {le ... vo'a [if I dare raise that particular bugbear at this point] ... ca ce'u}
He changed what color he was{ko'a cenba le ka ca ce'u vo'a skari makau}
He changed his shirt {ko'a cenba le vo'a creka ca ce'u}

And so on with examles you'd like even less, I suspect.