From ucleaar@UCL.AC.UK Sat Mar 6 22:44:56 2010 Date: Sun May 14 14:06:35 1995 From: ucleaar Subject: Re: ci cribe X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: Nefud the Delirious In-Reply-To: (Your message of Tue, 09 May 95 13:53:59 EDT.) X-From-Space-Date: Sun May 14 14:06:35 1995 X-From-Space-Address: ucleaar@UCL.AC.UK Message-ID: Jorge: > And: > > > To get the second meaning, I would say: > > > le ci cribe cu batci rori > > This doesn't make much sense to me. It seems to me to mean > > "Each of the three bears bit each of itself" - daft. > Well, I tried to give it some meaning. I don't know what is > the meaning of quantifying a variable that is already quantified. > What do these mean: > ro da voi cribe zo'u da batci ro da > ro da voi cribe zo'u da batci su'o da > ro da voi cribe zo'u da batci re da > I would say they mean, respectively: > Each bear bit each bear. > Each bear bit at least one of the bears. > Each bear bit two of the bears. I think this is a good rule of interpretation (given that Lojban is too advanced in its design for any kind of significant revision). I don't think it falls out from the present rule system (& this is what I meant when I said it makes no sense), but I would support adding such a rule. ---- shaw haw me hay And