[lojban] Re: plural markers?

["Chris Capel" <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

Funny. I interpreted him as saying {mi ta'e cusku} or {mi na'o cusku},
as opposed to {mi pu cusku}. As in, "Yeah, I've been saying the same
thing", not "I said that earlier." (And looking back, I don't see
where he did.)

On 6/28/06, John E Clifford <clifford-j@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Sorry I missed it.  It is a fundamental point about Lojban, which gets missed in our Anglocentric
> fondness for marked number.
>
> --- HeliodoR <exitconsole@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > So -- context permitting -- the best plural is just the form without
> > internal quantifiers at all.
> >
> > mi cusku lo mintu be di'u
> >
> >
> > mi'e darves
> >
>
>
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