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la djan cusku di'e
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.
We all do, I think. Perhaps And will object to "'le djacu'
is a mass in the english sense of 'mass nouns'". But otherwise
we all agree, because that's the collective {lei} being described.
mu'o mi'e xorxes
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