loi tanxe

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>> But notice that if {loi tanxe} means "some mass of boxes", then you
>> can't conclude, from knowing that I need some mass of boxes and
>> that there is some mass of boxes in the other room, that the mass
>> of boxes in the other room is the one that I need.
>
>Good.  That's how it should be.  And it should contrast with "the mass
>of all boxes", and "all of the mass of all boxes".  If I need all of the
>mass of all boxes then I'm trying to corner the box market; the boxage
>in the next room is a portion of what I need.  If I need the mass of all
>boxes, then if there's some of that boxage in the next room than it's
>what I need.

loi tanxe means "some of the mass of all boxes", which in English is
nominally equal to "some mass of boxes".  Multiple references to loi
tanxe, like multiple zo'e, do not necessarily refer to the same thing.
Thus "loi tanxe cu cpana loi tanxe" means that "Some mass of boxes is on
a (presumably different barring some strange dimensional warping) mass
of boxes.

lojbab