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Borderline cases like {zo djan} make good examples:
(1) ko'a ciska pa zo djan ro papri be le cukta
He wrote one "John" on every page of the book.
FALSE, unless he somehow carved it so that every page was
affected, but even then it would be false that each page
by itself was the medium.
(2) ko'a ciska [tu'o] zo djan ro papri be le cukta
He wrote "John" on every page of the book.
TRUE, the Kind "John" was written on every page.
(3) ko'a ciska fi ro papri be le cukta be'o fe pa zo djan
He wrote on each page of the book one "John".
TRUE, but much more inconvenient than (2), and not at
all necessary, given that usually we are not interested
in distinguishing different avatars of the name "John".
We can of course be that explicit when needed.
mu'o mi'e xorxes
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