Re: three pairs of shoes & excellent solutions

Jorge "Llamb?as" <jjllambias2000-/[email protected]> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 13:22:03 -0700 (PDT)
Newsgroups gmane.science.linguistics.lojban.jboske
Message-ID <[email protected]>
--- John Cowan <[email protected]> wrote:
> And Rosta scripsit:
> 
> > Can you explain how to use mei to talk about (a) a pair of shoes,
> > (b) the group {Tom, Dick}?
> 
> The latter is easy: la tom. ce la dik. cu se remei. I admit that 
> "an N-some of foos" is problematic, because we are better at saying
> "an N-some, at least one of which is a foo."

"su'o lo PAmei be fi PA broda" would be a PA-some containing 
exactly PA broda. It does sound redundant though.

mu'o mi'e xorxes





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