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>> I don't really know how to do the quantifier "some but not all".
>
>Nor me. I was rather surprised when I realized I didn't know how to
>say it.

Too busy proposing new Lojban constructs and not enough time studying
the old???

How about veisu'obi'ida'a?

Or to be really creative da'asu'eda'a

or even da'asu'e or da'ada'a

BTW. da'aexisting does seem to me to imply that we intended that ro
imply existence, or at least assumed it tacitly.

lojbab