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RE: [lojban] no'a




la and cusku di'e

> 1- la djan ba klama lo zarci pu le nu la meris no'a
>
> A) John will go to some store before Mary goes to it.
> B) John will go to some store before Mary goes to one.

C) John will go to some store before Mary is x1 of the next
outer bridi.

Whatever does that mean? Could you give an example of a sentence
with no'a that makes sense? The next outer bridi is {la djan ba
klama lo zarci}, isn't it?

But let's change the examples to:

1- la djan ba klama lo zarci pu le nu la meris go'i
>
> A) John will go to some store before Mary goes to it.
> B) John will go to some store before Mary goes to one.

Sometimes I'm tempted to use go'i like that, but I think go'i
can't be the bridi it is embedded in.

My answer is this: if, as in predicate logic, each quantifier
begins a new bridi, then by go'i-ing to the appropriate
bridi (outer, including the quantifier, or inner, not including
the quantifier), you could get both A and B readings, at least
for 1 & 2.

What would be the bridi(s) in 1 if we followed predicate logic?
I usually take bridi to be the things separated by .i plus
anything within a NU. Can they be something else?

If only Loglan had remained true to its logical origins. Then
these sorts of issues would not arise, and we'd have decent
ways of saying all of the A & B sentences.

Was Loglan really ever logically true enough for that?

mu'o mi'e xorxes







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