Re: masses

["Jorge J. Llambías" <jorge@intermedia.com.ar>]

la trevyr cusku di'e

>Actually, i'm kindof curious why lojban doesn't just have some simple words
>like 'each' and 'all together' -- maybe as variations of 'ro', which seems
>ambiguous in this sense, since its definition says 'each/all'...  ???

But it does. {ro} is not ambiguous at all, it means "each", even if it is
not
clear from the gloss. "All" in English is ambiguous between "each" and
"all together", but {ro} is not.

"All together" in Lojban is {piro}, which might seem cryptic at first, but
that's how it is.

>then you could say 'ro'a le mlatu' meaning they all did something together,
>and 'ro'u le mlatu' meaning they did something individually...

And so you can: {ro le mlatu} means each of the cats individually, (and
by the way, is exactly equivalent to simply {le mlatu}.

{piro lei mlatu} means they all did something together, and should
be equivalent to {lei mlatu}, even though the Book says otherwise.

>But i guess these would be equivalent to 'lei mlatu' and 'le mlatu'
>respectively?????  yes?? :)

Yes!

>co'o doi do noi da poi zasti...

That should be {co'o doi do noi [ke'a] du da poi zasti}, o just
{co'o doi do noi [ke'a] zasti}. You didn't have any selbri to go
with {noi}.

co'o mi'e xorxes