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Re: [lojban] po'u considered harmful




la djan cusku di'e

No. When the referents are plural, "du" distributes
one-for-one: if I say that le mreni du le barda
that means that the men (that I have in mind) are the
same as the big ones (that I have in mind).

That would mean that {du} works differently than any
other selbri, it massifies all of its arguments!

So: {re broda cu du re brode} is NOT equivalent to
{ro da poi broda ku'o ro de poi brode zo'u da du de}?

This would be an extremely bad thing. I don't think
{du} should behave so excenctrically.

mu'o mi'e xorxes



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