[lojban] Re: Any (was: Nick will be with you shortly)

[John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>]

Steven Belknap scripsit:

> The typical lion's sex is unspecified, but is either male or female.  

No, the typical (as opposed to the average/mean/median/modal lion) is neither
male nor female, because it is not a lion at all.

> a pride of lions climbs in to my Ford Windstar, I can separately 
> consider each lion as it enters and classify each lion as being typical 
> or atypical.

This is a different sense of "typical" from the one being used here, closer
to "modal".  It is expressed not with a gadri, but with "cnano".

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