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xorxes�
>To do two groups of people we could use {re lu'o lo prenu}
>two masses, each of which consists of at least one person.
>This depends on how LAhEs work though, something that BF will
>have to clarify.
& pe#i LAhE shd not work thus & that "re lu#o lo prenu" is as
nonsensical as "two square=roots of 37".
But the su'o quantifier of {lo prenu} is inside the
scope of {lu'o}.
{lu'o ko'a e ko'e e ko'i} is the mass that has ko'a,
ko'e and ko'i as its components: {lu'o ro le ci broda}.
There is only one such mass, so I agree that in this
case it makes no sense to add a quantifier.
But {lu'o ko'a a ko'e a ko'i} is a mass that has at
least one of ko'a, ko'e and ko'i as components:
{lu'o su'o le ci broda}. There are seven such masses,
namely:
lu'o ko'a
lu'o ko'e
lu'o ko'i
lu'o ko'a e ko'e
lu'o ko'a e ko'i
lu'o ko'e e ko'i
lu'o ko'a e ko'e e ko'i
In this case, it does make sense to quantify over these
masses. {re lu'o su'o le ci broda} would be two of the
above masses. How else could that {su'o} be interpreted?
Another case: {lu'o re le ci broda}, a mass of two of the
three broda. There are three of those, so I would
interpret {ro lu'o re le ci broda} as something like:
ro da poi re de poi cmima lei ci broda zo'u de cmima ke'a
mu'o mi'e xorxes
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