Re: [lojban] Re: "any John" -- is it possible to translate this?

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Thursday 08 April 2010 08:52:07 Jorge Llambías wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:27 AM, tijlan <jbotijlan@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > I understand that "ro da zo'u la djon po'u da cu broda" differs from
> > "la djon po'u ro da cu broda" because a different value is picked for
> > each "da" according to its own scope  order;
>
> It's not just that. In "ro da zo'u la djon po'u da cu broda", for each
> value of "da" we could pick a different John. In "la djon po'u ro da
> cu broda", the same John has to be picked for all the values of "da".

What happens if you pick a value of "da" that isn't John?

Pierre
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