In a message dated 3/1/2002 8:18:39 PM Central Standard Time, jjllambias@hotmail.com writes:>I would like to see an example. The mass of texts in my library is not This is not obvious, albeit plausible. How do the details go? <How about a mass of many waters, can it be water?> Sure, that one seems to work, but I wonder if it isn't just malglico from the mass-noun status of "water". <Sorry, I don't know how else to say it. I write {li 4 sumji li 2 li 2} and read out /li pa sumji li re li re/. Then I write {A prami mi} and read out /abu prami mi/.> Well, let's see: they refer to the same thing (the letter "a", the number one), one is an abbreviation for the other. Not in Refgram or anywhere else I've found -- and a dangerous practice where every mark already has a meaning. Where on the wiki? <I don't use the word "ga'e abu". I use the symbol "A" to represent in writing the word "abu", just as I use the symbol "1" to represent in writing the word "pa". >You just don't refer to them correctly. I don't want to refer to them (capital letters) at all. I'm just using them.> Well, you say {MI} means {my ibu} which looks suspiciously like a descriptive reference, but the reference is to {mi}. |