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la and cusku di'e
Since countability and 'masses' entered the discussion, my understanding has changed slightly. Substances are uncountable. Non-substances are countable. Unique is non-substance, so lo-Unique is countable (but when you count it there is only one). So lo-Unique cakla might mean something like "the one chocolate (of the sort that come in chocolate boxes)", which in English might be said as "I like chocolates".
Makes sense.
What has changed here is not my conception of lo-Unique but rather my conception of what cakla means when not accompanied by a Substance gadri. (BTW, for Substance gadri, I am rather taken by xod's suggestion of using not a special gadri or LAhE but an inner tu'o.)
I like it too. With which gadri? It would seem it has to be
{lo'e tu'o cakla}, because {lo tu'o cakla} reintroduces
countability with the outer quantifier. This might even be
useful in some cases: {ci lo ro jipci} would be three chickens,
whereas {ci lo tu'o jipci} would be "three quantities of chicken"
introducing a different countability after tu'o erased the normal
countability of {jipci}.
mu'o mi'e xorxes
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