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On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Jorge Llambias wrote:
>
> la xod cusku di'e
>
> >Jorge is referring to the statistical mode (sort of like a lion of the
> >type that is a numerical plurality), and John is referring something more
> >like the statistical average (an abstract entity, like a set). I think the
> >CLL defines lo'e as the latter; the former could be le fadni cinfo.
>
> I don't think I'm referring to the mode. I meant to answer
> the other post where you mentioned this but I accidentaly forgot
> about it. Couples in general can have 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, any number
> of children (up to some indeterminate upper bound), not just the
> mode, which is probably zero, depending on which couples we're
> talking about.
The mode is the plurality of children numbers, certainly not zero. It's 2
in the US; the peak of the curve considering integers.
> {mi nelci lo'ei cakla} does not mean that I like the most common
> type of chocolate.
But you think lo'e does, right?
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