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On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 02:20:59AM +1100, Nick Nicholas wrote:
> My contention that {mei} means 'collective' should be easily proven by
> usage, btw.
>
> Does anyone ever use {remei} when {pamei} would also be true? If so,
> mass. If not, collective.
Yes. If "pamei" is true, you can always take another X and say
"remei", "cimei", etc.
> Does anyone ever use {remei} when {pisu'omei} would also be true? If
> so, substance. If not, collective.
I'm not sure what pisu'omei means.
> And that's built in to our treatment of numbers anyway, right? Because
> we've passed law that {re} is always {su'ore}.
re is never su'ore. The reason that we can say "remei" if "pamei"
is also true has nothign to do with numbers, it has to do with how
lojbanmasses work.
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