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

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

--- Zefram wrote:
> Jorge Llambías wrote:
> >(Now, {pa fi'u re le nanmu} is another story.)
> 
> How so?  Is {pa fi'u re} not equivalent to {pimu} here?

This is not firmly established yet, but the way I 
understand it:

PA1 fi'u PA2 <sumti> is PA1 out of every PA2 of the 
referents of "<sumti>". So {pa fi'u re le nanmu} 
would be "one out of every two of the men", so
"half the men" rather than "one half man of the 
men", which is what {pimu le nanmu} gives.

mu'o mi'e xorxes




		
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