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On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 10:34 PM, And Rosta <and.rosta@hidden.email> wrote: > > Let's take a step back. How do we do lists? How do we say "Alice, Bob and > Carol arrived"? > > Thinking aloud: > > ga F1-A F2-A = A is union of group of things that are F1 and group of > things that are F2 > la ga ''als'a ga ''bob'a ''karl'a klma = "Alice, Bob and Carol went" (I find pronouncing that sentence a real glottis twister.) So if: gnma: A is a group gnmake: A is group E gnmakeki: A is group union of E and I gnmakekiko: A is group union of E, I, and O then: ga F1-a F2-a:= le F1-e li F2-i gnmakeki. and now "ga ... ga ... ..." does do what we need. > la je nmpda ga nnla nxla snga > twelve boys and girls sang > > la nxla ga cmla snga > the girls laughed and sang [=some of the girls laughed and some sang] Another homonym, I first read it as "the girls are small and sing", which we would normally want to do with "je". > la csna ga mslfa ma xrxe > me and xorxes discuss I would transkate it as "the discussers are myself and xorxes", but yes. So I'll add the definition of ga in terms of gnma. ma'a xrxe