From cowan@LOCKE.CCIL.ORG Sat Mar 6 22:45:13 2010 Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 11:16:45 -0400 From: John Cowan Subject: Re: quantifiers on sumti - late response To: Bob LeChevalier X-From-Space-Date: X-From-Space-Address: LOJBAN%CUVMB.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu Message-ID: la .and. cusku di'e > How does this work? Are {suo do} and {ro do} okay as sumti? They are, indeed: "at least one of you" and "all of you" respectively. You can precede any sumti whatever with a quantifier. To settle another minor crux: after "da" and friends have been bound, a further quantification is a local subselection, as with most other sumti: so'a da poi gerku cu se denci .ije so'i da batci Almost-all Xs which are-dogs have-teeth, and most-of them (i.e., most of the ones which have teeth) bite. Here "so'a da" binds "da" to almost all dogs, and "so'i da" subselects most (not literally a majority, but just vaguely "a lot") of those. If "da" is used again, it means "so'a da" not "so'i da". -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org e'osai ko sarji la lojban.