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Re: RE: [jboske] Why ro is importing & nobody should mind



de'i li 2002-11-09 ti'u li 21:03:00 la'o zoi. And Rosta .zoi cusku di'e

>Jordan:
>> > The ro = 100 argument gives a principled reason why ro should
>> > be importing 
>> 
>> But ro *isn't* 100, pa is.  100 == 100/100 == 1 
>
>I mean that "ro" = "100 of", not "100". 
>
>"100 of the men" obviously is not equivalent to "one of the
>men".

No, but 'panono ce'i lei nanmu' probably is equivalent to 'pa lei
nanmu'. I've never heard an integer quantifying a mass before, but I
can't imagine what else it might mean.

mu'o mi'e .adam.