Martin Bays, On 21/10/2011 05:12:
* Thursday, 2011-10-20 at 23:25 -0400 - Pierre Abbat<phma@phma.optus.nu>:On Thursday 20 October 2011 22:06:58 And Rosta wrote:When I was last up-to-date with developments, nothing was official, but I think I can recall the rudiments of our best efforts at that time to construct a consistent and rational gadri system. As far as I now recall, "half an apple" would be "lo pi mu plise", while "pi mu lo plise" would be the "one in every two apples" one.If "pimu lo plise" means "one in every two apples", then "pa lo plise" should mean "every apple". I think "lo pimu plise" is "a half apple"But {lo PA broda cu broda} is meant to be a tautology. Half-apples aren't apples.
So {lo pi mu plise cu plise} fails that test, but {lo pi mu djacu cu djacu} passes it.
Following a line of thought that that observation initiates, I note that by the Goatleg rule, {su'o plise} is okay but {su'o djacu} is not and would instead have to be {za'u djacu} or {ci'i djacu}.
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