Re: [lojban] Re: le du

[John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>]

And Rosta scripsit:

> > Seems to me that it should probably default to su'obu'a, like da
> > defaults to su'oda.
> 
> If that were the case, then {le bu'a} would suffice as a descriptionless
> referential expression, but would have the drawback of introducing
> communicatively redundant quantification with all its attendant
> difficulties.

The intent is that bu'a, like da, when not bound in an explicit prenex,
is bound with su'o in an implicit prenex that is as close as it could be.

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