Re: mo'e

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> > >Which one is right? If {mo'e de} means "some number de", then I can't
> > >imagine what {mo'e pa plise} could mean.
> >
> > I was ellipsizing the restriction.  How about mo'e de poi namcu
> > (actually I might want namcu in the range 1-7 or something like that).
> 
> That's still different from some number de.
> 
> {de poi namcu} could be {li ci} for example.
> 
> Is {mo'e li ci} the same as {ci} as a quantifier? Or is it the number
> of numbers three, like supposedly {mo'e pa plise} is the number of apples
> in "one apple"?

I think that "mo'e li ci" is the same as "ci".  However, it is not the case
that "mo'e pa plise" is the number of apples in "one apple".  Rather, it is
a dimensioned number, like "5 meters", that has been coerced to the right
grammatical type to fit in an equation.

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