From lojbab@lojban.org Wed Sep 11 15:40:28 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojbab@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_1_1_3); 11 Sep 2002 22:40:28 -0000 Received: (qmail 21822 invoked from network); 11 Sep 2002 22:40:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m9.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 11 Sep 2002 22:40:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lakemtao02.cox.net) (68.1.17.243) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 11 Sep 2002 22:40:28 -0000 Received: from lojban.lojban.org ([68.100.206.153]) by lakemtao02.cox.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.05 201-253-122-122-105-20011231) with ESMTP id <20020911224027.UUBS12192.lakemtao02.cox.net@lojban.lojban.org> for ; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 18:40:27 -0400 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20020911183234.03352230@pop.east.cox.net> X-Sender: rlechevalier@pop.east.cox.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 18:37:31 -0400 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] word for "www" (was: Archive location.) In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed From: Robert LeChevalier X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=1120595 X-Yahoo-Profile: lojbab At 10:07 PM 9/11/02 +0000, Jorge Llambias wrote: >la lojbab cusku di'e > >just as > >prenu means both "person" and "people". > >Can {pa prenu} ever mean "one people"? I've never seen >it used like that. We're English speakers (for the most part), and hence tend to base our usage on Englishs singular/plural distinctions. I've never seen "pa djacu" used to refer to 1 molecule of water. No one ever uses a lujvo for "United States", one of the only concepts in English with a historical record of switching from plural to singular. (I think however that there are some differences between British and American English on singular/plural differences in some collectives - that might be another place where we could look for an answer. In short, there hasn't been a lot of usage to decide %^) 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