Subject: [lojban] Re: How would you say "plural" and "singular"?

From: Jordan DeLong <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 12:09:37 -0600

On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 07:40:14PM -0500, Avital Oliver wrote:
> From: Stefan "1of3" Koch 
> mi cusku lu
> 
> zoi gy dogs gy du la plural. pe zoi gy dog 
> 
> li'u
> 
> .i ri na'epu'i cfipu 
> But that's wrong. zoi gy dogs gy is not identical to anything called plural. What might have worked is

It's not wrong: the pe happens inside the name. dogs is the same
as the thing called "plural of dog". You're thinking as if he
had said "zoi gy. dogs .gy. du la plural. ku pe zoi gy. dog .gy.".

Doesn't change that it's somewhat cheating though.

> zoi gy dogs gy me la plural ...

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