On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 07:41:30PM +0100, And Rosta wrote:
> xorxes:
> > --- Jordan DeLong <fracture@allusion.net> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 11:11:25AM -0700, Jorge Llambmas wrote:
> > > > Is there any brivla with even less content that will do instead?
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > Yes. {co'e}.
> >
> > But {co'e} is heavily context dependant. {ro da du de} is always
> > true. {ro da co'e de} may be true or false, depending on context:
> > before we can evaluate it we need to work out what co'e stands for
> > in this case and then see whether it holds for everything.
>
> The original question can be reposed as: What fills the gap in the
> following pattern?
>
> go'a-series : ra-series
> broda-series : ke'a-series
> bu'a-series : da-series
> co'e : ???????
.... zo'e, of course ...
> > Another possibility we have not yet considered is {le bu'a}.
>
> We have not considered the more general question of what bu'a
> means when not quantified in the prenex. Personally, I would
> see it as the brivla equivalent of ce'u, in which case it wouldn't
> be equivalent to {le du}.
Seems to me that it should probably default to su'obu'a, like da
defaults to su'oda.
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Jordan DeLong - fracture@allusion.net
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