Subject: RE: [lojban] po'u considered harmful

From: "Craig" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 06:15:00 -0500

>>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!

Unless {ko'a goi lei ci broda}, because then {lei ci broda du le ci broda} -
which I assume you are going to agree with. Since part of the mass that is
ko'a is the pamai broda, the whole mass has the property of being the pamai
broda; the same goes for the remai and cimai.