Re: plural

[Jorge Llambias <jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU>]

> > How do you say "the men carried the piano" in Lojban WITHOUT making
> > the individual/group distinction?
>
> I don't think you can avoid making this distinction. BUT "lei nanmu
> carried the piano" can have a distributive interpretation, since the
> mass inherits all properties of its members.

If {lei nanmu pu bevri le pipno} can have the distributive interpretation,
then there is no way to clearly express the group interpretation.

Let's be a bit more concrete: {lei nanmu pu paroi bevri le pipno} claims
that the piano was carried only once. How do you get a distributive
interpretation from that?

Jorge