On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 12:12 PM, John E Cli= fford <kali9putra@yahoo.com> wrote:

Relying on pragmatics is best when the semantics is sound, which i= s not clear here.=A0 I can't parse {nabyplane} off hand, so I'll sk= ip that and also the awkwardness of having both {tu'a} and the elided p= redicate {citka} present.=A0 The scope of {ma} is problematic: is it this w= orld, where, admittedly, the answer presumably lies, or the world of {lo nu= do citka}, where the language places it?=A0 Happily, the answer is a this-= worldly {da}, which covers the difference smoothly (the event world presuma= bly in these cases includes the relevant portions of the actual world and, = perhaps, then some).

From: .arpis. <rpglover64+jbob= au@gmail.com>
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Sent: Saturday, August 25, = 2012 10:14 PM

Sub= ject: Re: [lojban] "Any" and {ro}

I wonder if we can rely on pragmatics...

{tu'a ma poi nabyp= lane do citka se djica}
{.i da}

We do have which, I think: {ma po= i}

On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 10:25 PM, la .lindar. <lindarthebard@gmail.com> wrote:

To play devil's advocate, I think an unquantified sumti is pre= tty much what we want.

However, we don't have "= which", so we don't really have "any".

"Which sandwich do you want?"

<= /div>
"Any sandwhich is fine."

In Lo= jban I wouldn't say it that way.

{.i ko cuxna = fi loi snuji} or summat.

Whatever... I'm out of opinions/suggestions.
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