Re: quantifiers on sumti - late response

[ucleaar <ucleaar@UCL.AC.UK>]

Jorge:
> > I think the default should actually be an implicit {loe}, the "myopic
> > singularizer".
> I like it! Both the suggestion and the description. (In practice, that
> doesn't differ much from saying that it's the mass.)

There are differences between masses and myopic singulars, as I'm sure
you're aware.  {ci da stedu loe prenu} is probably false (or at least
conceptually really weird), and {ci da stedu lee prenu} is probably
false too, if we're referring to a person, while {ci da stedu loi prenu}
can be true, if the person mass contains three people.

> > Since there is no point in using quantifiers with
> > loe, that would leave {re do} unambiguously meaning "two of you".
> Yes. Can you accept {mi nitcu re lo'e tanxe} on the same grounds?
> i.e. "I need two of Mr Box"?

Well, I accept it as much as I accept {re loi tanxe} or {re la xorxes
jambias}.

> > Ah. {lo broda} is {lo suo broda} and {lohi broda} is {lohi ro broda}?
> No, {lo broda} is {lo ro broda} and yes, {lo'i broda} is {lo'i ro broda}.
> Even more explicitly {lo broda} is {su'o lo ro broda} and {lo'i broda}
> is {piro lo'i ro broda}.

So what is "a set of boxes"? {pisuho lohi tanxe}?

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