On 5/22/06, Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com> wrote:
On 5/22/06, Maxim Katcharov <maxim.katcharov@gmail.com> wrote: > I think I see what you're getting at, but I don't quite follow. Could > you provide an example? lo ro mapku cu melbi gi'e ku'i du'e mei do'e lo nu mi bevri "All the hats were beautiful, but too many for me to carry." None of the hats was "too many" by itself, they were too many together.
I may be a bit confused - why doesn't ro lo mapku cu melbi gi'e ku'i du'e mei do'e lo nu mi bevri work here? This seems to be the problem of masses that John described much earlier, how you couldn't really say "all the students surrounded the building and wore hats".