[lojban] Re: xorlo

[Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Squark Rabinovich<top.squark@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/9/8 Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>
>>
>> We do have many names for "lo", it is a word, it is a cmavo, it is a
>> gadri, etc, it is not a bunch. The issue of new entities comes about
>> when discussing what "lo jubme" for example refers to. My answer is
>> that it refers to tables, not to bunches or to a bunch. To refer to
>> bunches there are better words, such as "lo gunma", "lo girzu", "lo
>> selcmi", etc. Saying that "lo jubme" is "a bunch of tables", or
>> anything else besides "tables", only invites confusion, in my opinion
>
> I fail to see almost any difference between "tables" and "a bunch of
> tables". Perhaps the only difference is that "bunch" contains a stronger
> implication of something uniting the tables together. In order to remove any
> doubts, lets call it a "plurality of tables".
> Fellows, I'm afraid we are totally lost here, as far as xorlo is concerned.
> Where are the authority people? Where is xorxe himself?
>
>
  Jorge Llambias IS xorxe


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