Re: TECH: long, but major topic: lean lujvo and fat gismu

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

la djan cusku di'e

> Oh yes.  The properties of a mass are the properties of its components, plus
> any emergent properties it may have.  Indeed, I can say "mi'o klama" even
> if you are not going anyplace, or (in lojbab's graphic example) if I cut
> your hand off and take it with me!

oiro'o

> English occasionally uses "we" as a mass pronoun in this way:
>
>         We're having a baby/We're pregnant
>
> may be used by the male member of a couple, e.g.

You can say that in Spanish as well, but I always thought it was more of
an empathy thing, rather than a mass property. I still haven't quite
"groked" this mass business anyway.

co'o mi'e xorxes