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Re: banzu xipaso
- Subject: Re: banzu xipaso
- From: "Adam Raizen" <araizen@newmail.net>
- Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 16:22:07 +0200
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