From lojban@lojban.org Thu Mar 07 06:55:07 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: unknown); 7 Mar 2002 14:55:07 -0000 Received: (qmail 77512 invoked from network); 7 Mar 2002 14:55:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.172) by m11.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 7 Mar 2002 14:55:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO stmpy-1.cais.net) (205.252.14.71) by mta2.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 7 Mar 2002 14:55:07 -0000 Received: from bob.lojban.org (ppp60.net-A.cais.net [205.252.61.60]) by stmpy-1.cais.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g27Et5e14889 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 09:55:06 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20020306211103.00b62a20@pop.cais.com> X-Sender: vir1035@pop.cais.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 21:14:33 -0500 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: [jboske] RE: Anything but tautologies In-Reply-To: <8a.14d244f1.29b23bb5@aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed From: Logical Language Group X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=1099080 At 09:29 AM 3/2/02 -0500, pycyn@aol.com wrote: >In a message dated 3/1/2002 8:18:39 PM Central Standard Time, >jjllambias@hotmail.com writes: >Consider the text of each chapter of a book. Then the mass >>of texts from all chapters are the text of the book, they >>collaborate to be the text of the book. > >This is not obvious, albeit plausible. How do the details go? > > > >Sure, that one seems to work, but I wonder if it isn't just malglico from >the mass-noun status of "water". If you can treat water as a mass noun, then you can treat dog as a mass noun. Western speakers are not used to doing so. I think you end up with something akin to Mr. Dog (our Trobriand Island friend). lojbab -- lojbab lojbab@lojban.org Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: http://www.lojban.org