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On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Michael Turniansky
<mturniansky@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> =A0 I respectfully disagree. Da and friends are specifically existential
> variables.=A0 If they are not qualified with NOI or GOI, or some other
> mechanism,=A0"ro da" MUST refer to everything, talked about or not.=A0 I =
would
> prefer "ro zo'e" or even "lo romei" to unqualified "ro da" if you are onl=
y
> talking about somethings in the universe.=A0 The purpose of "da" is to ma=
ke
> existential claims, and youundercut that if you use it for something else=
.
> (So yes, "ro prenu cu xebni mi" and not "roda xebni mi" for "everybody ha=
tes
> me")

But when someone says "everybody hates me" they usually don't mean to
include themselves, or people who have never heard of them. There's
usually some implicit restriction involved in the context: "everybody
relevant to what I'm saying". Not every person who has ever lived, or
ever will live or ever could live, or imaginary persons, or persons
that perhaps exist in another planet, or... So if you think that "ro
da" is bad because it is too general, then "ro prenu" is just as bad,
since a mere restriction to people is nowhere near enough.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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