Date: Mon, 19 Dec 1994 16:42:09 -0500
From: Logical Language Group <lojbab@ACCESS.DIGEX.NET>
Subject: Re: Cowan's sum opaque
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> djer:
>
>         Trying to preserve the dictionary sense of "any" as: one taken
>         randomly out of at least two, in a past tense; I would *not say,
>         "I asked a man that I met" because this doesn't express the act
>         of random choice which is built in to this definition. The man
>         in your sentence could be Adam--well, at least the only man in
>         the universe of discourse. So no choice would be possible.
>         I would say "I asked someone at random that I met" to preserve
>         this meaning of "any" in a past tense.

Unfortunately, my gismu list is off-line, but I think you simply want
"lo -randomly-chosen person", where "-randomly-chosen" is a lujvo.

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John Cowan              sharing account <lojbab@access.digex.net> for now
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