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Re: [lojban] po'u considered harmful



Jorge Llambias wrote:

la djan cusku di'e


mi me le ci nolraitru = I am Caspar, Melchior, or Balthazar.
mi du le ci nolraitru = We are Caspar, Melchior, and Balthazar.


The first is true and the second false, right?

Whatever {ko'a} refers to, {ko'a du le ci broda} has to be
false (unless you're Catholic), because if something is equal
to each of three broda, then each of the three is equal
to the others, but then it is one thing, not three!

No.  When the referents are plural, "du" distributes
one-for-one:  if I say that le mreni du le barda
that means that the men (that I have in mind) are the
same as the big ones (that I have in mind).

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