Re: [lojban] More about quantifiers

["Jorge Llambias" <jjllambias@hotmail.com>]

la and cusku di'e

> Further, if Jorge and pc want to propose comprehensive
> systems for importing and nonimporting quantifiers, they
> should be done solely on the basis of "da poi ke'a", since
> only such a system will generalize to all cases. In this
> respect, Jorge's and pc's proposals are equally defective.

You're quite right. Here's a proposal that complements
mine so as to take care of the remaining cases:

Let's define: {roma'u}, {noma'u}, {su'oma'u} and {me'iroma'u}
as always having existential import, and {roni'u}, {noni'u},
{su'oni'u} and {me'ironi'u} as the non-import forms.

In my system:

ro = roni'u
no = noni'u
su'o = su'oma'u
me'iro = me'iroma'u

Other systems will have other defaults (but these are
the easiest to use for naku transformations).

In practice I don't expect these to be used, but they
would be there in principle for those who want a complete
system.

mu'o mi'e xorxes



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