Re: [lojban-beginners] questions about lojban

[Ian Johnson <blindbravado@gmail.com>]

On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 5:40 PM, v4hn <me@v4hn.de> wrote:

{pa le karci} or {pa karci} (if a number preceeds the bridi you don't necessarily
need an article, you can think about this as {pa lo karci}) can be used for that,
an inner quantifier is not needed here.

{pa karce} is rather unlikely to mean what you want. In particular it does *NOT* mean the same as {pa lo karce}. Instead it actually means exactly what {pa lo karce} meant before xorlo was implemented, that is "there exists exactly one car such that ..." Roughly speaking {pa lo karce} says "of the cars that we're talking about, one of them does ..." while {lo pa karce} says "there's one car that we're talking about, it does ...". Either one is fine to talk about "a car", although honestly {lo karce} is fine the extremely vast majority of the time.

mi'e la latro'a mu'o

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