From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed Jun 15 11:08:44 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 15 Jun 2005 11:08:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1DicJX-0001VC-QZ for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 11:08:35 -0700 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1DicJX-0001V5-Gd for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 11:08:35 -0700 Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 11:08:35 -0700 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: No default quantifiers. Message-ID: <20050615180835.GG13307@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <925d1756050615103522c3355@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 10177 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 06:01:50PM -0000, opi_lauma wrote: > > > In the Lojban-Wiki I have found the following: > > > > > > There are no default quantifiers. At all. For example, the > > > default outer quantifier of "lo" used to be "su'o", which > > > means "at least one", but that is no longer the case. "lo > > > cribe" could be one, or a billion, or none. > > > > It couldn't be none, {lo cribe} has to refer to something for a > > sentence about it to make sense. > > I hope you are right, but it is written in the Lojban-Wiki: > http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=How+to+use+xorlo&bl > So, may be it should be corrected? What it actually says is: or none (although expect listener hostility!!) You snipped that last part. However, reading the actual proposal again I think xorxes is right. The "none" bit will be removed. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!" Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/