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Re: [lojban] Mass/Set
From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" <lojbab@lojban.org>
At 01:43 PM 03/11/2000 -0800, Jorge Llambias wrote:
>la lojbab cusku di'e
> >It better, since most people who eat apples only eat a fraction of them,
> >discarding the core.
>
>Yes, I forgot to comment about that. Obviously discarding
>the core or the peel still counts as eating an apple, but
>does eating half an apple count as eating an apple?
>It doesn't in English,
Only to adults %^) Sometimes my kids "eat an apple" and what is left is
easily half.
> and I suspect it doesn't count
>as {citka lo plise} in Lojban either.
Implicit quantifier su'o normally means "one" but could be "part of one" in
some circumstances. Let us say that I spot someone's head far away
sticking above an obstruction. I would say "I see someone"; "mi viska lo
prenu" even though what I saw was far less than a person (one reason why I
think of individual people as masses, and indeed individual objects of any
kind - if the relevant properties can be met by part of the whole, then we
say it applies to the whole rather as a mass). To clearly say you ate the
whole apple, you can say piropa or piro le pa lo plise.
>co'o mi'e xorxes
>
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