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At 08:40 PM 1/8/03 +0000, And Rosta wrote:
> >But this does not resolve the only unresolved issue, which is whether> >"lo blanu" means just "something that is blue" or whether it means "something> >that is singulary countably blue". That is, does {lo} force a countable > >interpretation on the predicate? I guess Nora would say No > > I don't even have to ask her to be sure of that I think there must have been confusion about this at some time, though, because we have all that "is an amount of" in the gismu definitions, which is unnecessary but seems to imply that at some time the idea was that lo *does* force a countable interpretation on the predicate.
Remember that this stuff was written before CLL was even a glimmer in Cowan's eye. I was trying to broaden people's considerations of what a predicate means, as well as support the lack of an English->Lojban dictionary. In this particular wording, I was also copying JCB's style of gismu definition (and JCB did not even HAVE a "lo" when he wrote those definitions, only the equivalents of "loi" and "le", and he used his loi at that point rather sparingly).
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