In a message dated 4/19/2001 6:01:32 PM Central Daylight Time,
lojbab@lojban.org writes:
As originally proposed, we were looking for a way to express "only", and
Nick, I believe it was came up with a rather longwinded logical form for
one kind of "only", which po'o was to be an abbreviation of (it may have
been the formalization of "[sumti] and no other", but someone looking many
years back in the list archives can surely find the original
discussion). Thus, as a discursive, it resembles various markers of
reflexives, and the word for "etc." that are short forms for logical
expressions for which the necessary information is present to construct the
logical form (if needed), but for which it usually is a pain to actually do
it.
Well, the logical form is not appreciably more longwinded than the one for
"all," just slightly more confusing. But as for it being a discursive, the
other things noted see to belong KOhA or SE, not UI.
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