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

["And Rosta" <a.rosta@v21.me.uk>]

pier:
> On Friday 21 January 2005 18:24, And Rosta wrote:
> > IMO {pi mu lei broda} should be equivalent to {(pa) fi'u re
> > lei broda}, for nonequivalence might seem an insult to mathematics
> > (though admittedly the existence of the mathematically suspect
> > locution "pi ro" might imply nonequivalence -- but I would rather
> > abolish "pi ro" as incoherent). But also IMO, {pa lei broda} would
> > best be seen as an abbreviation of {pa fi'u ro lei broda}, "one out
> > of all the broda". So it would follow that {pa fi'u re lei pa no no
> > broda} should mean "one out of every two of the hundred broda", and
> > then so should "pi mu lei pa no no broda".
> 
> I think {piro} is equal to {pa} when used as a quantifier. The emphasis, 
> though, is different:
> piro lo nanmu = a whole man (as opposed to part of a man)
> pa lo nanmu = a single man (as opposed to several men)
> piro lei nanmu = all the men (not just some of them)
> pa lei nanmu = the men, counted once (this phrase doesn't translate well)

If {pi ro} is meaningful then that does seem a reasonable interpretation.
{pi ro} is certainly hallowed both by usage and by CLL, but strictly
speaking it is idiomatic, for I don't see how it's meaning can be
derived from that of pi and that of ro. It's questionable whether
lojban countances idioms, and it might therefore happen that the
BPFK decide that "pi ro" was a 'mistake'.

--And.


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