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BPFK Section: gadri


pc:
> 1. I suppose {paremei} is strictly a tanru, but it is hard to see how it
> could be more precise, I like {lo pare sovda} better for all that.

{paremei} is not the tanru, {sovda paremei} is. An egg type of dozen
is most likely but not necessarily a dozen eggs.

> 2: I gather that {lo'e} is in play as well as {lo}, moving from "the typical"
> to "the taxon" or so (probably not literal Linnean taxa only but that sort of
> thing on any informal level). I think that talk about that sort of thing
> usually is just generic "cucumbers do thus and so", meaning more than some,
> probably not all and certainly the ones that I am fond of, pretty much what
> xorxes has been using {lo} for most of the time. But this case nicely
> mmuddles things, since the critters about which we are talking are exactly
> subtaxa, not their representatives. No problems with that, actually, but some
> with the first part, the taxon itself. We are set up for talking about
> members (etc.) not the abstracts. But I said we needed a device for these
> and here finally is a case — I think.

I'm not sure if you're taking into account the "se" here.
The x1 of guzme is for the cucumbers and the x2 for the taxon
or whatever. Pierre is talking about {lo'e se guzme}.

mu'o mi'e xorxes





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