[lojban] biodiversity and sequence of quantifiers

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

I'm doing research on herbs and found this sentence: “It is also estimated 
that 70% of the plants existing in the planet occur in only 11 countries: 
Australia, Brazil, China, Colombia, Ecuador, India, Indonesia, Madagascar, 
Mexico, Peru, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.”  In case I mistranlated, 
the original, in Portuguese, is on page 2 of 
http://www.cedeplar.ufmg.br/seminarios/seminario_diamantina/2010/D10A022.pdf .
How would you state this in Lojban?

Obviously he means species of plants, not individual plants. An individual 
plant cannot occur in more than three countries (unless there's a Four 
Corners of countries somewhere). But with the quantifiers in that order, it's 
highly unlikely that all species of plants which occur in 11 countries occur 
in the same 11 countries.

Pierre
-- 
Don't buy a French car in Holland. It may be a citroen.

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