Re: [lojban] Explicit non-restriction

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Daniel Brockman <dbrockman@gmail.com> wrote:
> If you say {.i do nelci ma}, most people will assume that
> you've left out some implicit {poi broda} on {ma}.

Why? "ma" usually means "what?", not "which?".

Without any more context, I would read "do nelci ma" as "what do you like?".

But for example with more context:

   lo ckafi lo tcati zo'u do nelci ma
   "Coffee, tea: which do you like?"

> So how
> would you express that {ma} is completely unrestricted?

"ma poi mo"?

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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