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Your final comments raise the issue of what your xorlo is
like -- clearly different from mine ("salient node ...") and apparently
making {lo broda} applicable to things totally unlike brodas (which
might, I suppose, be particularly bad cases of {le broda}).
I wasn't presenting my view of xorlo, but merely asking a hypothetical question. Some of this comes from the time when {ci lo mu bakni} meant "three groups of five cows" and {PA lo broda} was defined to be quantifying over a singluar Broda (so the {lo} could be dropped). The final version of xorlo doesn't have this anymore, so now {lo broda} must be able to create plural groups, which it obviously does, or else lo tadni could not sruri a dinju. Still, I'm not sure if, when taking {lo tadni} to be singular even in the sruri case, it's just English that makes it sound strange, or if it really is strange. By my comment I was trying to "invite" people to try to think about this very question but without going through English first and to see if there might not be some sense in it. In more slightly different terms: Would it be strange for a myopic singular student to surround a building?
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