Quantifiers (was Re: A modest proposal #2: verdicality)

["Dylan P. Thurston" <DPT@HUMA1.BITNET>]

mi cusku .o'inai di'e
 > Anyway, IMHO the syntax of sumti needs both rethinking and debugging.
 > From the state of this part of the grammar, I'd guess that it's
 > {puta'e} been patched; I think a rewrite rather than further patching
 > is in order.

That's a bit strong, I think.  Apologies.

Lojban is a beautiful language, with a very unusual structure (for
human languages) and lots of interesting features, yielding new and
different modes of expression.  {pe'i} There are just a few rough
spots that could, well, use a little smoothing (from a rather formal
language design point of view); but on the whole, it's very clean
(well-ordered, compact).  (Much cleaner than any natural language and
even some computer languages, for instance.)

[As an aside, I'd like to point out the use of English politeness
rules in the above paragraph: I qualified the statements that might
cause offense with {pe'i}.  Politeness rules are a very cultural thing;
Japanese, for instance, has very different rules from English.  We
might want to avoid exporting these same rules to Lojban.

On the other hand, I, for one, might not be able to: English rules of
politeness are too ingrained in me.]

mu'o mi'e. dilyn.