Re: The dreaded word "only"

[John Cowan <cbmvax!UUNET.UU.NET!snark.thyrsus.com!cowan>]

mi cusku di'e

> >        ro da poi cevni du la .alax.
> >        all x1s which are-gods are-identical-to Allah

la nitcion. cusku di'e

> Which transforms to:
>
> la alex. du roda poi cevni
> .i la alex. du ro cevni

All's well so far.

> .i la alex. romei lei cevni

Here I disagree on two counts, one minor, one fundamental.  The minor point
is that "ro cevni" means "ro lo cevni", and therefore the mass form must be
"loi cevni", not "lei cevni".

But even making this change,

        la alex. romei loi cevni

still seems to me to mean:

        That-named "Allah" is-an-allsome-of the-mass-of gods

In other words, there are one or more gods, and "Allah" is a collective name
for all of them taken as a mass.  Remember that "la alex." is not marked
for number!

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