[lojban-beginners] Re: How to express "nobody"?

[robin <robin@bilkent.edu.tr>]

lojban@65536.org wrote:
> coi rodo
>
> While playing with Lojban I found a little problem? I can say
> {le nanmu cu prami le ninmu} and {le nanmu cu na prami le ninmu},
> but how do I express that nobody loves her? {no lo nanmu cu prami
> le ninmu} is the best version so far, {zo'e na prami le ninmu}
> should be something like "somebody unimportant doesn't love the
> woman".

That's true, in the sense that there is one person who doesn't love the 
woman, but we aren't concerned with who that person is.

>  Is there a better way to say "Nobody love the woman"?

I don't know about better, but there are alternatives.  For example:

naku su'o da zo'u da prami le ninmu

"It is not true that there is at least one X, such that X loves the woman."

noda zo'u da prami le ninmu

"There is no X, such that X loves the woman."

robin.tr


--
"The raisins may be the best part of a cake, but that doesn't
mean that a bag of raisins is better than a cake."
- Wittgenstein

Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey

www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin