Re: The...the...
| From: | Jim Henry <jimhenry1973@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, April 21, 2006, 19:04 |
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On 4/20/06, veritosproject@gmail.com <veritosproject@...> wrote:
> > I don't think it really has anything to do with definiteness; the
> > English expression is just weird. Think about different ways of
> > expressing correlation. Something along the lines of "more implies
> > merrier", "if more, then merrier", "for every bit more, there is a
> > corresponding bit merrier".
>
> Yeah, Cenoji is somewhat like "assuming that more is true, we can
> conclude that merrier is true also."
gjâ-zym-byn would do much the same.
mâ reŋ-sra ĉǒ, wǒn pym-sra-bô.
person many-more if, therefore amusement-more-ADJ
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Jim Henry
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