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--- Invent Yourself <xod@hidden.email> wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Arnt Richard Johansen wrote:
> > We could have a "married" predicate in which the first argument is a
> > group, which says that all the members of the group are married together.
> > Similar to the thing they did for {casnu}.
>
> pada speni pade .iju pada speni na'ebo de ji'a
{pada speni pade} is clearly false. There are millions of people
that are married to a single person, not just one:
{so'iki'oki'oda speni pade}.
What you want to say is that a person is married to a second
person independently of whether or not the first one is married
to someone else. We can say something like {lo prenu cu speni
lo drata iju py speni na'ebo dy}, for example, with XS gadri. It
is not something easy to say with quantifiers.
But what Arnt was talking about is a different situation. He is
not talking of A being married to B and also independently
to C, i.e. two marriages, but rather a situation in which A, B
and C all together constitute a single marriage.
mu'o mi'e xorxes
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