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Re: plural



>I have to agree with Jorge here.  The default quantifiers are in effect
>unless overridden, and "le ci nanmu cu bevri le ci mudri" means that each
>of the three men carried three logs each.
>
>However, the +specific nature of "le" means that there are at most three
>logs operating here: it can't be the case that each man carried a different
>group of three logs.
>

Yes but my statement re defaults did was not referring to situations where
you actually supplied onm of the values.  I can live with "le tu'o broda"
meaning "su'o le tu'o broda" - I am questioning whether "le broda" without
quantifiers could be pitu'o le pa broda (which is a mass).

lojbab