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--- In jboske@yahoogroups.com, Jorge "Llambías" <jjllambias2000@y...>
wrote:
>
> la and cusku di'e
>
>
> "The default inner PA for lo can remain lo(ro), as in CLL."
>
> I think that doesn't work. {lo pa broda} is Mr Single Broda,
> {lo re broda} is Mr Pair of Prodas, {lo so'i broda} is
> Mr Many Brodas, then {lo ro Broda} is Mr All Brodas, a very
> large individual, not the lean individual that appears here and
> there again and again, but the big one that is all over the place
> all the time. {lo ro broda} is {piro loi ro broda} (in the collective
> reading of loi): all the avatars together, isn't it?
>
> The default I would expect is {lo pa broda}, Mr Individual Broda,
> if we need a default at all. Having no default would be better.
This part actually seemed off to me, when reading it. "Mr pair of
Brodas" would be something like "lo broda [se] remei" or "lo [se]
remei be lo broda". When you want to talk of pairs, that's where the
massifying PA affixes come in.
Me, I still feel that the Kind isn't its instances. That is, when I
see "a bird", I may not know which one it is, but it is still some
enumerable bird, not some mythical "Mr Bird". When I want to buy a
bird, yes, then I'm searching for Mr Bird. This is likely due to
incomplete understanding of Kind and when it gets used on my part.
~mark