Re: needing books

[Jorge Llambias <jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU>]

la and reisku di'e

> How do you distinguish, (preferably in non-pedantic usage):
>
>   I need there to be a specific book such that I have it.

    mi nitcu le nu da poi cukta zo'u mi ponse da

Non-pedantic:

    mi nitcu le nu mi ponse lo cukta


>   There is a specific book such that I need to have it.

    da poi cukta zo'u mi nitcu le nu mi ponse da

As non-pedantic as I can:

    lo cukta zo'u mi nitcu le nu mi ponse ra

Or, (but lojbab disagrees):

    mi nitcu lo cukta


> Jorge:
> > The difference between
> >         do kakne le nu cuxna ro selska
> >         You can choose every colour.
> > and
> >         do kakne le nu cuxna paxe'e selska
> >         You can choose any one colour.
> > is that in the first one you allow to choose more than one colour,
> > while in the second one you don't.
>
> Does this have something to do with the scope of quantifiers with
> respect to modal operators?
>
>   You can choose every colour:
>     It is possible that for every x, x a colour, you choose x
>
>   You can choose any one colour
>     For every x, x a colour, it is possible that x is the one
>      colour you choose.

I think it does have a lot to do, but I can't write your second phrase
in Lojban using {kakne}.

> cf.
>   Everyone could marry me.
>    It is possible that everyone marries me
>   Anyone could marry me.
>    For everyone it is possible that they marry me/
>    For everyone it is possible that they be my one spouse
>
> Or am I treeing up the wrong bark?

I think it's the right bark, keep treeing that it's helping a lot.

Jorge