[lojban] Re: {Archivist} Intention of gunma?

[Robin Lee Powell <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 07:21:15PM -0400, Bob LeChevalier wrote:
> At 01:22 PM 10/16/03 -0700, Robin wrote:
> >On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 02:50:54PM -0400, Bob LeChevalier wrote:
> >> At 04:39 PM 10/15/03 -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote: The
> >> "intent" (however sloppy) was
> >>
> >> le cecmu cu gunma mi joi da    (unless I am the only component
> >> of the mass).
> >>
> >> but I believe current thinking would make it
> >>
> >> le cecmu cu gunma mi ce da
> >
> >My question was, can argument 2 be incompletely specified?
> 
> I thought I indicated not - that se pagbu would work for
> incompletely specified component lists, so we don't need gunma to
> be exactly the same thing.

<nod>

And I agree.  In fact I said so in my long Lojban yesterday,
although that was selcmi rather than pagbu.  I think selcmi is the
better comparitor.

-Robin

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