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On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Adam Raizen wrote:
> la xod. cusku di'e
>
> >>>Would {le ni ce'u prami ce'u} mean "the amount of lover--beloved
> >>>pairings"? That would be much harder to say in some other way.
> >>
> >>I suppose it would if 'ni ce'u broda' counts le broda, but that is not a
> >>concept likely to be used often anyway.
> >
> >
> >
> > When I asked John Cowan for the canonical example of ni + ce'u, that's
> > what he offered. Nobody complained at the time. Perhaps you could re-read
> > this entire thread from the beginning of this subject line, and see what
> > you disagree with.
>
> I've read this whole thread, and if John said something along the lines
> of ni+ce'u is used for counting the number of objects which fulfill the
> ce'u place, then I didn't reply because I figured I had already stated
> my position or I didn't have a chance or I forgot. My best guess is that
> you are referring to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jboske/message/268,
See 273.
> which I don't interpret as indicating that John supports ni+ce'u as
> counting objects. I see nothing wrong with his proposal there, but in
> practice I don't think that it is ever necessary to use ni like that
> (with ce'u and with that meaning).
>
> mu'o mi'e .adam.
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