Re: [lojban] The scale of ji'a

["Jorge Llambias" <jjllambias@hotmail.com>]

> >You can't use {da'a} to say "all but the cat".
>
> da'alepa poi broda ku'o mlatu

I think for that to be grammatical the relative clause must
come before the inner quantifier: {le poi broda ku'o pa mlatu},
but I'm not sure what you mean by {poi broda} anyway.

{da'a le mlatu} is "all but one of the cats",
{da'a le pa mlatu} is "all but one of the one cat",
so it can only be "not the cat", but there is no
hint of anything non-cat there. The "all" in {da'a}
refers to the inner quantifier number, not to a
more inclusive "all".

Maybe something like {le da'amei pe le mlatu} could
work. "The all-but-one-some associated with the cat",
and we have to understand that the relation is that
the cat is the one excluded.

co'o mi'e xorxes


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