From @uga.cc.uga.edu:lojban@cuvmb.bitnet Thu Jun 01 22:03:20 1995 Received: from punt2.demon.co.uk by stryx.demon.co.uk with SMTP id AA3221 ; Thu, 01 Jun 95 22:03:18 BST Received: from punt2.demon.co.uk via puntmail for ia@stryx.demon.co.uk; Thu, 01 Jun 95 19:46:48 GMT Received: from uga.cc.uga.edu by punt2.demon.co.uk id aa02726; 1 Jun 95 20:46 +0100 Received: from UGA.CC.UGA.EDU by uga.cc.uga.edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 3106; Thu, 01 Jun 95 15:44:07 EDT Received: from UGA.CC.UGA.EDU (NJE origin LISTSERV@UGA) by UGA.CC.UGA.EDU (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 8414; Thu, 1 Jun 1995 14:23:51 -0400 Date: Thu, 1 Jun 1995 19:22:42 +0100 Reply-To: ucleaar Sender: Lojban list From: ucleaar Subject: Re: quantifiers on sumti - late response X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: Iain Alexander In-Reply-To: (Your message of Tue, 30 May 95 21:16:51 EDT.) Message-ID: <9506012046.aa02726@punt2.demon.co.uk> Status: R Jorge: > > If I want to say "some books are blue" I can say either {ro lo suho > > lo cukta cu blanu} or just {lo cukta cu blanu}, while if I want to > > say "some books have a colour" I need to say {ro lo suo lo cukta cu > > se skari}, or something like that. > What's wrong with {lo cukta cu se skari}? Unfilled places are > very accomodating. What fills the unfilled places in the logical form? I can't think of anything that would do the job. > > And "People went" would be {ro lo suo > > lo remna cu klama}, unless I wish to assert they each went > > to the same place, from the same place, via the same place, > > etc. Is this right? > No, because the default filler is not {da} but {zo'e}, which has > lots of wonderful properties. (Very lo'e-like now that I think of it, > great that the vowels agree!) What are the properties of {zo'e}? I thought it was that it could be equivalent to {da} or to {keha}; I didn't realize it had extra magic. --- And