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Re: [lojban] Re: noxemol ce'u



In a message dated 10/1/2001 9:22:50 AM Central Daylight Time, arosta@uclan.ac.uk writes:


Well hey, that was only my guess at how you'd use the lujvo to say
"the mother-of function": I see now that unresolved confusion about
which gadri/quantifiers to use with nei/no'a may have caused a
problem, so rephrase to:

"da poi ro de ke'a se -function ro mamta be de"

= "something x such that x is a function from every y to every mother  of y"

And tinker with it until it satisfies you.


But I told you how I would use it the first time.  Why {ro mamta}, is there more than one?  If so, how is this a function?  Otherwise you are getting around to my usage, which is, after all, just the antural one.  Why make weird problems?

<If you're talking about the value rather than the function, then I'd have
thought ordinary bogstandard "LE mamta be ko'a" does the job.>

But I want to talk about the course of values, if you will, and so I used the natural extension of that standard to get away from one individual  to a range of individuals:
{le mamta be ce'u}.  Thanks for the support.