Re: [lojban] Bald men

[pycyn@aol.com]

In a message dated 10/28/2001 8:49:34 PM Central Standard Time, xod@sixgirls.org writes:

"All men don't have hair" can be represented in Lojban as

      ro nanmu na se kerfa

which prenexes as

      naku ro da poi nanmu zo'u kerfa da
      It is false that for each X that is a man, (something) is X's hair

which is true: some men are bald.

Exactly.  "All men don't have hair" is ambiguous in English, but the most plausible reading is this one.  The other reading is better put as "No men have hair", {no namu cu se kerfa}