Re: Dr. Rosta's comments on my gadri whitepaper

On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Jorge Llambías wrote:

>
> la xod cusku di'e
>
> > Your XS ignores Collectives, treating them as identical to pluralities.
>
> In XS:
>
> le ci broda: "the three broda", the group, one entity.
>
> ro le ci broda: "Each of the three broda", each member of the group,
> three entities.
>
> What do you understand by "plurality"?


Dr. Rosta's XS gives: {ci lo re plise} = "three pairs of apples"

Is it really referring to apple-collectives? I don't think that apples can
form collectives. But how else would one discuss three pairs? This is the
conflation of plurality and collective.

I think we agree on our definitions, but mine are here:
http://www.lojban.org/wiki/index.php/Towards%20a%20complete%20gadri%20picture



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