Re: [lojban] {zo'e} as close-scope existentially quantified plural variable

["John E. Clifford" <kali9putra@yahoo.com>]

But that gets half of the extension of {plise}, not half of the apples I am talking about.

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On Oct 20, 2011, at 15:51, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:

> On Thursday 20 October 2011 12:32:45 John E. Clifford wrote:
>> Sorry, don"t see how what you say differs from what I say: {pi mu lo plise
>> cu broda} means that a subset of lo plise with half it's cardinality
>> satisfies (in some unspecified -- but hopefully obvious from context  --
>> way) {broda}.
> 
> {pimu lo plise} is half of {pa lo plise}. {pimu lo plise cu nenri le tanxe} 
> means "half an apple is in the box", not "half of the apples are in the box". 
> I think the correct way to say "half the apples" or "one of every two 
> apples", without splitting apples, is "pa lo'e re plise".
> 
> Pierre
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