[lojban] Re: outer and inner quantifiers on "le"

[Jorge "Llambías" <jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar>]

--- Zefram wrote:
> Chris Capel wrote:
> >What's the meaning of "pimu le pano nanmu"?
> 
> "half a man, of the ten men that I'm talking about".
> 
> What's the difference between that and "pimu lei pano nanmu"?
> 
> That would be "half of the group of ten men that I'm talking about".
> The difference is that in the first case the referents of the phrase
> are men, whereas in the second case the referent is the group.

That's exactly right.

(Now, {pa fi'u re le nanmu} is another story.)

mu'o mi'e xorxes



		
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