Re: [lojban-beginners] Just to double check, about {da} and quantifiers

[Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com>]

2011/5/30 Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>:
> On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 7:48 PM, .arpis. <rpglover64+jbobau@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Specifically, in the restricted case,
>> (assuming there are no cat-dogs in the universe) what does {ro da poi ke'a
>> gerku je mlatu cu broda} mean?
>
> It means:
>
>   ro da zo'u ganai da gerku je mlatu gi da broda
>
> it means that whether there are cat-dogs or not.
>
>> Is it false, true, meaningless?
>
> If there are no cat-dogs, it's true, since for every value of da it
> will be false that da gerku je mlatu.
>
> mu'o mi'e xorxes

   Which is precisely why I say that every "lo no broda cu brode"
construction is also true.  But no one seems to believe me :,-(

               --gejyspa

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