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At 12:24 PM 1/6/03 +0000, And Rosta wrote:
Lojbab:
> At 10:19 PM 1/5/03 +0000, And Rosta wrote:
> >The following facts are incompatible:
> >{lo blanu} means "da poi is-a-countable-blue-thing"
> >{ti blanu} means "this is blue", not "this is-a-countable-blue-thing"
>
> Beating Nora to the punch, we can argue about gadri all you want, but when
> you turn to predicates themselves, you need to also be considering the
> verbal reading. Thus
> {lo blanu} means "da such that [it/they] blue[s]" (meaning that
> countability disappears as an issue)
> {ti blanu} means "this blues", not "this is-a-countable-blue-thing"
You are right about {ti blanu}, but officially {lo blanu} means
"da such that it is a countable blue thing", not "da such that it
blues". Countability does not disappear as an issue, because countability
is part of the official meaning of {lo}.
Can you give a specific reference (one that does not ascribe countability as an implication of the default quantifiers).
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