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pc:
> <<
> a device (which I can't find
> >anywhere) for clustering sentences and then specifying properties on the
> >whole set: "exactly one of" being the desideratum here.
>
> I don't think we have such a device. We have {pa lu'a} to select
> exactly one member of a sumti, but nothing like that for sentences,
> as far as I know.
> >>
> I think we bunced it about a couple of times and maybe even got it to
> lexed status, but I can't find it -- I can't even think what to
> search on. The need is rare but real -- as any attempt to express
> what I want succinctly shows.
Convert each sentence to a sumti by means of du'u plus your gadri of
taste. Then combine using ce, and add pa lu'a.
--And.