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

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

--- Zefram <zefram@fysh.org> wrote:

> Jorge Llambías wrote:
> >PA1 fi'u PA2 <sumti> is PA1 out of every PA2 of the 
> >referents of "<sumti>".
> 
> a'unai.  Nasty overloading.  How does one override that interpretation,
> to be able to express a fraction of a referent using {fi'u}?

One general way of expressing fractions is with {si'e}:

 lo <fraction> si'e be pa <sumti>

is unequivocally a fraction of one of the referents of "<sumti>".

Any convention with fractional quantifiers has its drawbacks.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

  




		
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