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wrote:
>
> --- John E Clifford wrote:
> > --- Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > >
> > > That's {lo mu bakni}.
> >
> > Isn't that some group of groups of five
> things
> > related to cows?
> > How do you say "five of the things just
> referred
> > to as {lo bakni}"?
>
> It depends what you want to say.
>
> If you want to refer to five of the things just
> referred
> to, then {lo mu lo bakni} for example would
> serve. If you
> don't want to refer to them, but you want to
> say that exactly
> five of those just referred to do something or
> other, then
> {mu lo bakni} would be appropriate.
I am afraid I don't quite follow what is going on
here. I gather that you want "refer" to have
some special sense, involving perhaps
identification or specification or whatever.
Could you give an example of the difference. We
have some sentence involving {lo bakni},
referring to some group of things related to
cows. I want to say that five of those things do
such and such. And have said that, I want to go
on and say some more things about those five. Do
I use {mu lo bakni} both times or {lo mu lo
bakni} both times or the short form the first
time and the long form the second (or, I suppose, conversely)?