Re: masses (the last one should have been dialectology)

[Chris Bogart <cbogart@QUETZAL.COM>]

Jorge and pc were doing mean things to water and cats:

>        le xadba be le vi djacu cu djacu
>        Half of this quantity of water is a quantity of water.
>
>But can I say:
>
>        le xadba be le vi mlatu cu mlatu
>        Half of this cat is a cat.
>
>I don't think that makes much sense, or I don't know what is mlatu.

mlatu isn't necessarily singular.  If {le vi mlatu} above referred to Loki
and Thekla, then would {le xadba} be just Loki?  Or would {le} distribute so
we're really saying {le re xadba be le re vi mlatu}, i.e. half of *each* cat?

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