Re: [lojban] lo with discourse-scope?

[John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>]

And Rosta wrote:

> "An/This Englishman walks into an Irish pub. He goes up to the bar and..."
>
> Which Englishman?
> It doesn't matter -- any old Englishman.
> So not {le glico} then?
> No.


I disagree:  I think this is "le glico (bi'u)" = +specific -definite.
It's true that there's no particular Englishman in the Real World
that you are referring to, but he is quite specific in the Joke World.


> So what we need is a way to indicate an existential quantifier that has scope
> over an entire text?
> Yes.
> And how do we do that?
> I've no idea. I'll ask The List.


If you want to do that, then use a prenex before tu'e...tu'u:

da poi glico zo'u tu'e [as many sentences as you want] tu'u

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