[lojban] Re: No default quantifiers.

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 06:01:50PM -0000, opi_lauma wrote:
> > > In the Lojban-Wiki I have found the following:
> > > 
> > > There are no default quantifiers. At all. For example, the
> > > default outer quantifier of "lo" used to be "su'o", which
> > > means "at least one", but that is no longer the case. "lo
> > > cribe" could be one, or a billion, or none.
> > 
> > It couldn't be none, {lo cribe} has to refer to something for a
> > sentence about it to make sense.
>
> I hope you are right, but it is written in the Lojban-Wiki:
> http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=How+to+use+xorlo&bl
> So, may be it should be corrected?

What it actually says is:

    or none (although expect listener hostility!!)

You snipped that last part.

However, reading the actual proposal again I think xorxes is right.
The "none" bit will be removed.

-Robin

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