From jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar Thu Jan 20 07:20:51 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 20 Jan 2005 07:20:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from web41902.mail.yahoo.com ([66.218.93.153]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Cre72-0003IF-HB for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 20 Jan 2005 07:20:44 -0800 Received: (qmail 16362 invoked by uid 60001); 20 Jan 2005 15:20:13 -0000 Message-ID: <20050120152013.16360.qmail@web41902.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [200.40.223.43] by web41902.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 20 Jan 2005 07:20:13 PST Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 07:20:13 -0800 (PST) From: Jorge "Llambías" Subject: [lojban] Re: outer and inner quantifiers on "le" To: lojban-list@lojban.org In-Reply-To: <20050120140217.GD3649@fysh.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-archive-position: 9291 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list --- Zefram wrote: > Chris Capel wrote: > >What's the meaning of "pimu le pano nanmu"? > > "half a man, of the ten men that I'm talking about". > > What's the difference between that and "pimu lei pano nanmu"? > > That would be "half of the group of ten men that I'm talking about". > The difference is that in the first case the referents of the phrase > are men, whereas in the second case the referent is the group. That's exactly right. (Now, {pa fi'u re le nanmu} is another story.) mu'o mi'e xorxes __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! http://my.yahoo.com