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xod:
> On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Adam Raizen wrote:
>
> > la .and. 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
The thread was not at all clear. When John offered that example, I
construed your reply as meaning "Aha! thus do you betray your
error!" & I'd thought you were anti ni+ce'u.
Now I'm not sure who is pro ni+ce'u & what they think it shd mean.
Me I'm agnostic.
--And.