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personal pro-sumti as masses
coi rodo
The question I want to ask has arisen recently in a discussion
between Russian loglanists and lojbanists on a Russian linguistic
forum
http://lingvoforum.net/viewtopic.php?p=13949
The discussion started from an attempt to translate into lojban the
frase
"Together, we are stronger than apart"
(in Loglan {Miu forli mio} --- Loglan has two series of personal
pronouns for masses and individuals). The first attempt was
{mi'a tsamau ro mi'a}
which was criticized on the grounds that {mi'a}, as defined in CLL,
is a mass. The following variants were suggested:
{mi'a tsamau lu'a mi'a} =? we-and-they-jointly are stronger
then some of us
or {mi'a tsamau ro lu'a mi'a} =? we-and-they-jointly are
stronger than each of us
Questions: 1. Which of the variants do you prefer?
2. Can we use {me} instead of {lu'a}?
3. In CLL it is said that {mi'o}, {mi'a}, {ma'a}, and
{do'o} are masses. How about other personal pro-sumti? Are they also
masses? For example, {ro lu'a do}=? each of you? If so, is the
popular greating {coi rodo} correct? May be, {coi ro lu'a do} is
better?
mu'o mi'e .evgenis.