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Jordan DeLong scripsit: > But "le djacu" *can* refer to any amount of water. "lei djacu" is > a lojbanmass of those individual amounts. A single "le djacu" is > only a mass in the english sense of "mass nouns" and whatnot. > > So, if I have 3 bottles of water, they can be individually "le > djacu" or massively "lei djacu". Likewise, if I'm talking about > the 7 oceans, they can be individually "le ze djacu" or lojbanmassively > "lei ze djacu". I agree with every word of this. -- Business before pleasure, if not too bloomering long before. --Nicholas van Rijn John Cowan <jcowan@hidden.email> http://www.ccil.org/~cowan http://www.reutershealth.com