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Re: [lojban] {zo'e} as close-scope existentially quantified plural variable



* Tuesday, 2011-09-20 at 21:15 -0400 - Martin Bays <mbays@sdf.org>:

> * Tuesday, 2011-09-20 at 21:16 -0300 - Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>:
> 
> For the third: it could be replaced by {lo remna cu ckaji lo ka se tuple
> re da}, or by a tanru - {lo remna cu re mei se tuple} - or by an
> explicit generic quantifier, which {so'e} arguably is: {so'e remna cu se
> tuple re da}.
> 
> The second is toughest, and a good demonstration of the power of
> kind-quantification, but since it is in the end a case of generics,
> I think it can be handled similarly:
> {so'e xanto cu bramau so'e tumla danlu poi na xanto}

Correction: just using {so'e} isn't really adequate for this purpose, of
course, because default tense assumptions would have that making a claim
only about the present world.

Maybe this is where {lo'e} could come in.


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