Received: from mail-qw0-f61.google.com ([209.85.216.61]:46862) by stodi.digitalkingdom.org with esmtps (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1RIi6V-0005sL-2L; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 07:35:52 -0700 Received: by qadb10 with SMTP id b10sf789409qad.16 for ; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 07:35:40 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlegroups.com; s=beta; h=x-beenthere:received-spf:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:x-original-sender :x-original-authentication-results:reply-to:precedence:mailing-list :list-id:x-google-group-id:list-post:list-help:list-archive:sender :list-subscribe:list-unsubscribe:content-type; bh=BeNco9yIh/WHP67sOj0P0GF+nN9f6x5wdZi4VmNQ2Lo=; b=W1ZWKqPU3lLs5g3aWc0TZVOKKpYSIkiSMDS2z/z+QK5lGPLDRdETFfrLDS9Nscz+TP 5C37tNJFav4msHAR8KUpPgfVYWnYBXN1AEpQ25BKxf5zBuSUp4StFtRHLM1h+PJ75VvC DU95sRb6oROSCtRvTF/Fcihc7FJPszd5YMW/8= Received: by 10.224.181.194 with SMTP id bz2mr5904512qab.7.1319553338102; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 07:35:38 -0700 (PDT) X-BeenThere: lojban@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.224.203.195 with SMTP id fj3ls15268387qab.5.gmail; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 07:35:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.224.187.197 with SMTP id cx5mr12941928qab.1.1319553337517; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 07:35:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.224.187.197 with SMTP id cx5mr12941927qab.1.1319553337508; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 07:35:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-qy0-f172.google.com (mail-qy0-f172.google.com [209.85.216.172]) by gmr-mx.google.com with ESMTPS id j29si1802935qcs.2.2011.10.25.07.35.37 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 25 Oct 2011 07:35:37 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of and.rosta@gmail.com designates 209.85.216.172 as permitted sender) client-ip=209.85.216.172; Received: by mail-qy0-f172.google.com with SMTP id 34so3165863qyk.3 for ; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 07:35:37 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.50.84 with SMTP id y20mr4730130qcf.214.1319553337384; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 07:35:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.229.11.134 with HTTP; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 07:35:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.229.11.134 with HTTP; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 07:35:37 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <20111022030801.GG28229@gonzales> <1319308068.11247.YahooMailRC@web81306.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20111023203658.GH28229@gonzales> <1319404501.57946.YahooMailRC@web81303.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20111023213304.GA3230@gonzales> <20111024151402.GA3062@gonzales> <4EA5ACD4.4030106@gmail.com> <20111024184651.GC3062@gonzales> <4EA5F890.6070501@gmail.com> <20111025002558.GA27114@gonzales> <4EA60BBC.1040707@gmail.com> <34E48F58-22FA-4546-A448-51BB53D7DC69@yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 15:35:37 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [lojban] {zo'e} as close-scope existentially quantified plural variable From: And Rosta To: lojban@googlegroups.com X-Original-Sender: and.rosta@gmail.com X-Original-Authentication-Results: gmr-mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of and.rosta@gmail.com designates 209.85.216.172 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=and.rosta@gmail.com; dkim=pass (test mode) header.i=@gmail.com Reply-To: lojban@googlegroups.com Precedence: list Mailing-list: list lojban@googlegroups.com; contact lojban+owners@googlegroups.com List-ID: X-Google-Group-Id: 1004133512417 List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: Sender: lojban@googlegroups.com List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001636834078efdec504b0207368 X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) X-Spam_score: -0.7 X-Spam_score_int: -6 X-Spam_bar: / --001636834078efdec504b0207368 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Quite. This is the sort of thing we should be free to disagree on. What about the situation where every day there is exactly one lion in my garden? Would you allow descriptions like "my daily lion" or "the lion in my garden" - singular lion? On 25 Oct 2011 13:50, "John E. Clifford" wrote: If you can only count up to one lion, I am not going lion hunting with you. The chances of being seriously outnumbered (in some, to you perverse, way) are too great. I say that, if there is a lion on the left and one on the right, there are two lions, not one, and it's going to take at least two bullets to get rid of them. Sent from my iPad On Oct 24, 2011, at 21:07, And Rosta wrote: > Martin Bays, On 25/10/2011 01:... > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "lojban" group. > ... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "lojban" group. To post to this group, send email to lojban@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to lojban+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/lojban?hl=en. --001636834078efdec504b0207368 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Quite. This is the sort of thing we should be free to disagree on.

What about the situation where every day there is exactly one lion in my= garden? Would you allow descriptions like "my daily lion" or &qu= ot;the lion in my garden" - singular lion?

On 25 Oct 2011 13:50, "John E. Clifford&q= uot; <kali9putra@yahoo.com&g= t; wrote:

If you can only count up to one lion, I am not going lion = hunting with you. =A0The chances of being seriously outnumbered (in some, t= o you perverse, way) are too great. =A0I say that, if there is a lion on th= e left and one on the right, there are two lions, not one, and it's goi= ng to take at least two bullets to get rid of them.

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