Basically it really simplifies how gadri work in lojban. If I understand it myself correctly, {ci lo gerku} is saying "three dogs". Meanwhile "lo ci gerku" is saying something like "all three of the dogs that we are talking about". i.e. If you have "X lo Y gerku cu blabi" X is how many gerku are "white" and Y is the number of dogs that we're talking about. So if there are 5 dogs in a room that we're looking at and 3 of them are white, you could say {ci lo mu gerku cu blabi}. And I believe that there are no default quantifiers for {lo} either anymore. So {lo gerku} can be used if you're talking about 3 dogs, 1 dog, some dog (who knows which one), or even something that resembles a dog in your mind.
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Ben Foppa
<eatingstaples@gmail.com> wrote:
In Lojban For Beginners (http://www.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/
lojbanbrochure/lessons/less4articles.html), it is stated:
"So ci lo gerku means 'three of those which really are dogs', or in
plain words, 'three dogs'. lo ci gerku, however, means that we are
talking about [one or more of] the only three dogs in the world, which
is not something you'd really want to say."
I understand how "ci lo gerku" means "three of those which are really
dogs", but I don't understand how "lo ci gerku" means a subset of the
only three dogs in existence; based on the definition of "lo" given
there and on Wiktionary (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lo#Lojban), it
seems that "lo ci gerku" would mean "That which really was three dogs".
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