[lojban] Re: "any" and "every"

["Jorge Llambías" <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On 1/10/07, Cyril Slobin <slobin@ice.ru> wrote:
> What does the sentence {mi kakne lonu mi catra ro remna} mean?
>
> 1) "I can devastate the whole Earth"
> 2) "I can kill any one man of my choice, but then I probably will be
> arrested and not able to kill the second, the third etc..."

To make the difference explicitly:

1) mi kakne lo nu ro da poi remna zo'u mi catra da
2) ro da poi remna zo'u mi kakne lo nu mi catra da

> I think the right answer is second, and for the first one one needs
> {mi kakne lonu mi catra piro loi remna}, but I am not sure. Any
> comments?

I think when a quantifier is not put explicitly in a prenex, it is assumed
to be in the most immediate one, so it would be (1), but in any case you
can always make it explicit.

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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