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xorxes:
> I'm starting to like And's {lo'e mibypre} for
> "one" though, which is what I wanted {zu'i} for.
{lo'e mibypre} is certainly good for English "one". I don't
know other languages well enough to know whether it generalizes
to, say, French "on", German "mann" (or is it "man"?). Certainly
I think Italian "si mangia (questo cibo)" seems more like "the
food eats, the food is edible" than "one eats the food", though
it is reasonably like the more usual reading of "one can eat
the food", but this "one" is more like a "someone", semantically.
--And.