Return-Path: <@FINHUTC.HUT.FI:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET> Received: from kantti.helsinki.fi by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with smtp (Linux Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0rHlA5-00007DC; Wed, 14 Dec 94 06:17 EET Received: from fiport.funet.fi (fiport.funet.fi [128.214.109.150]) by kantti.helsinki.fi (8.6.9/8.6.5) with ESMTP id GAA09116 for ; Wed, 14 Dec 1994 06:17:56 +0200 Received: from FINHUTC.HUT.FI (MAILER@FINHUTC) by FIPORT.FUNET.FI (PMDF V4.3-7 #2494) id <01HKMBLEMIHS0006CB@FIPORT.FUNET.FI>; Wed, 14 Dec 1994 04:04:38 EET Received: from SEARN.SUNET.SE (NJE origin MAILER@SEARN) by FINHUTC.HUT.FI (LMail V1.1d/1.7f) with BSMTP id 5471; Tue, 13 Dec 1994 22:53:10 +0200 Received: from SEARN.SUNET.SE (NJE origin LISTSERV@SEARN) by SEARN.SUNET.SE (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 5149; Tue, 13 Dec 1994 21:49:46 +0100 Date: Tue, 13 Dec 1994 20:00:47 +0000 From: ucleaar Subject: Re: plural In-reply-to: (Your message of Tue, 13 Dec 94 05:59:44 EST.) Sender: Lojban list To: Veijo Vilva Reply-to: ucleaar Message-id: <01HKMC2HFOSA0006CB@FIPORT.FUNET.FI> X-Envelope-to: veion@XIRON.PC.HELSINKI.FI Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 413 Lines: 12 Lojbab to Xorxe: > No. I think you are attaching too much significance to default quantifiers, > which work like the space-time reference - they are applicable only so far > as context demands. If this were true (& I bet it isn't) then no default quantifiers should be specified. If any quantifier can be filled in if none is explicitly given, the choice of which to fill in should be left to users. --- And