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Re: banzu xipaso



la xod cusku di'e

> From: xod <xod@bway.net>
> 
> On Sat, 30 Oct 1999 reciproc@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca wrote:
> 
> > > lo jetnu cu zemei
> > 
> > Seems to mean
> > 
> > some truths are a mass of 7 members
> > 
> > Which does not make any sense, unless "lo" is replaced with "loi", which
> > should make it mean "there are 7 truths".
> 
> 
> Using loi would imply that their truth is a collective property, possibly
> not shared by each individual member. Is each fact true in isolation?
> Then use "le, lo", which can be used for plurals too.
> 
> But x1 of n-"mei" is a mass! So, we might try 
> 

That doesn't mean that we can't have "individual" masses. We 
could have several different masses, which we think of as 
individuals, but whose internal structure is thought of as a mass.

> lo ze jetnu cu zasti
> 

That implies that there are exactly 7 things which are true in the 
universe; also, zasti is a bit vague. How about just

zemei jetnu

co'o mi'e adam