Re: three pairs of shoes & excellent solutions

"And Rosta" <[email protected]> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 23:20:50 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.science.linguistics.lojban.jboske
Organization Livagian Consulate
Message-ID <021101c35dfe$ba533f00$a33c0751@oemcomputer>
John:
> 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."

I meant "Can you explain how to use mei to *nonredundantly* talk 
about (a) a pair of shoes, (b) the group {Tom, Dick}?" -- {lo remei
be la tom ce la dik} is no more informative than {la tom joi/jo'u la 
dik}.

The new XS proposal makes mei pretty redundant, though, so if it passes
then we needn't agitate to give mei a useful place structure.

--And.