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Re: A question and introduction

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Thursday, June 13, 2002, 23:33
John Cowan wrote:
>I think you're overinterpreting the nullary number (which in Lojban is done >with the number zero). Just take it as "I see zero houses", "I see zero >elephants". In German one doesn't say "I don't see an apple", one says >"I see no apples".
Yes; Dutch too. JOOC is it possible to say, and is there a difference (ignoring cases and correct article usage): Ich sehe nicht ein Apfel (or maybe Ich sehe ein Apfel nicht......??)

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