[lojban] Re: Usage of lo and le

[Seth Gordon <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

Maxim Katcharov wrote:
> My default /is/ what you describe right here. When you don't specify a
> default inner quantifier, the listener will automatically think "all
> relevant things", just as when you leave out time tense, they'll think
> "all relevant times".
> 
> You had said: "{lo ro cribe cu morsi}, and be understood as saying
> that all the bears *in this museum* are dead". If you had said {lo
> cribe cu morsi}, the effect would be the same, would it not? The
> listener would assume that you mean all bears in the museum.

In a museum, I might assume that either the museum had all live bears or
all dead bears, and so I would interpret {lo cribe cu morsi} as meaning
the latter.

On the other hand, if I was hiking in the woods of Lojbanistan and my
native guide said {lo cribe cu morsi}, I would *not* assume that he was
saying that *all* the bears in these woods were dead.


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