Subject: Re: sets, masses, &c. (was: RE: [lojban] Re: [jboske] RE: Anything but tautol...

From: And Rosta <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 19:53:58 +0000

>>> Pierre Abbat <[email-masked]> 03/04/02 03:05pm >>>
#On Monday 04 March 2002 09:50, And Rosta wrote:
#> 1. How DO you say "apple" (as in "the bowl was full of apple") in
#> Lojban?
#
#I would say {loi plise marji}. Once established that the apple may not have 
#been in apple form, I could then refer to it as {lei plise}.

Okay, but let me rephrase my question:

1. How DO you say "apple" (as in "the bowl was full of apple") in
Lojban, without using inherently vague tanru, and without having
to define a lujvo for every such mass term?

--And.