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> Whats {dvandva}? Did you mean {dvadva}?Sorry. It's a Sanskrit term for a certain type of compound: "victory defeat"for "a victory or defeat, as the case may be".
I thought 'dva' was the rafsi for {da}, but the rafsi
are 'dav' and 'dza', now that I've checked. Come to
think of it, 'dv' is not even a permissible initial.
As for Central+Southern Africa, wouldn't we rather want a
{joi} than a {ja}? In your story, you want to say that the
Lion lives in the totality of that territory, not in one part
or the other as the case might be. Otherwise you would
accept West Africa as a possible location too.
> If lo'e cinfo lives in Central+Southern Africa and not in West > Africa, doesn't lo'e remna live in Eurasia and not in Australia? I don't think so, but I can't quite articulate why. There are fewer people in Australia, but Australians are not *outliers*. Maybe the lions in East and West Africa aren't either, though the lions in zoos surely are.
That's because you're thinking of {xabju} as "lives in the wild".
Those lions are outliers only insofar as their mode of inhabiting
is weird, not because they inhabit somewhere sparsely populated.
The people who live in Antarctica are outliers: lo'e remna doesn't live there.
But is it because they are too few, or because their way of living is just too weird to be called a living? Can we say with the same confidence that lo'e remna doesn't live in some island in the Pacific with a similar population to Antarctica but with generations of tradition? Are they outliers, or are they like Australians? Maybe what you mean is that lo'e remna doesn't live in Antarctica in the same way that it lives everywhere else? It doesn't have deep roots there? I can agree with that. mu'o mi'e xorxes _________________________________________________________________Choose an Internet access plan right for you -- try MSN! http://resourcecenter.msn.com/access/plans/default.asp