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Invent Yourself scripsit: > My proposal gives lei an *actual meaning*! Tell me what difference there > is between "a beer" and "some beer", thus justifying why we need a > distinct gadri to mark the difference. Countability. "How many beers [drinks] have you had?" "How many beers [vats] are in this cellar?" "How many beers [cans] are in the fridge?" All these questions make sense and thus want "xu lo birje". Where counting does not make sense, then "loi birje" is appropriate. -- Knowledge studies others / Wisdom is self-known; John Cowan Muscle masters brothers / Self-mastery is bone; jcowan@hidden.email Content need never borrow / Ambition wanders blind; www.ccil.org/~cowan Vitality cleaves to the marrow / Leaving death behind. --Tao 33 (Bynner)