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From: "And Rosta" <a.rosta@v21.me.uk>
Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: outer and inner quantifiers on "le"
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> Jorge Llambías wrote:
> >PA1 fi'u PA2 <sumti> is PA1 out of every PA2 of the
> >referents of "<sumti>".
>
> a'unai.  Nasty overloading.  How does one override that interpretation,
> to be able to express a fraction of a referent using {fi'u}?
>
> -zefram

IMO {pi mu lei broda} should be equivalent to {(pa) fi'u re
lei broda}, for nonequivalence might seem an insult to mathematics
(though admittedly the existence of the mathematically suspect
locution "pi ro" might imply nonequivalence -- but I would rather
abolish "pi ro" as incoherent). But also IMO, {pa lei broda} would
best be seen as an abbreviation of {pa fi'u ro lei broda}, "one out
of all the broda". So it would follow that {pa fi'u re lei pa no no
broda} should mean "one out of every two of the hundred broda", and
then so should "pi mu lei pa no no broda".

--And.