[lojban-beginners] Re: ke'a

["Jorge Llambías" <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On 7/22/08, Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 8:22 AM, Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >  lo nanmu poi mi viska ro lo karce poi ke'a vecnu ke'a
> >  The man who I saw all the cars he sold.
> >
> > In English, there is a logically equivalent reversed version:
> >
> >  The man who sold only those cars I saw.
> >
> > But in Lojban we don't have a restricted quantifier "only", so
> > we don't seem to have that option.
>
>  lo nanmu poi ke'a vecnu ro lo po'o karce poi mi viska ke'a
> ?

The "ro" is wrong, because I might have seen some other
car he didn't sell.

And the po'o says that he didn't sell _anything_ besides
the cars I saw, but what we need to say is that he didn't sell
_any car_ besides the ones I saw. He might have sold other
things.

mu'o mi'e xorxes