Re: [lojban] {le} in xorlo

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

On Tuesday 13 April 2010 17:26:17 John E Clifford wrote:
> Ummm!  I think that the quantifiers behave differently for 'lo' and 'loi' 
> 're lo ci gerku' is two of the three dogs acting individually but 're loi
> ci gerku' is a bunch of two, i.e., acting still together.  There's
> something about fractional quantifiers as well, but I am even less sure how
> that works: 'pire lo'i gerku' is maybe halves of dogs for 'lo' but, I
> think, still a bunch of dogs half the original size for 'loi'.

"re loi ci gerku" means six dogs, in two masses of three, each mass acting 
together. "pire lo'i gerku" is 1/5 of a set of dogs. li pire du li 
fi'umu .ije li pimu du li fi'ure.

On Tuesday 13 April 2010 14:28:35 Luke Bergen wrote:
> Because the {citka lo pipno} means that "eats the piano in its entirety"?
>  What if three cows are standing around, one of them eats a piano, and then
> a second cow eats the first cow (including the piano).  In this case it
> would be true that {re lo ci bakni cu citka lo pipno}.  Am I right?

"re lo ci bakni cu citka lo pipno" does not imply that both cows eat the same 
piano. Neither does "re lo ci bakni cu citka pa pipno" or (if I understand 
xorlo right) "lo pipno cu se citka re lo ci bakni". "pa pipno cu se citka re 
lo ci bakni", though, does imply that the same piano was eaten by both cows.

I have never heard of cows eating cows which eat pianos before. It does 
happen, though, that one insect eats another insect while it's eating 
something else.

mu'omi'e .pier.
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