Re: [lojban] biodiversity and sequence of quantifiers

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Michael Turniansky
<mturniansky@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/11/18 Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>
>> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Michael Turniansky
>> <mturniansky@gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
>> > ji'i pi ze lo ro spati poi se terdi ti cu diklo loi
>> > papa gugde
[...]
>> You're missing the "only".
[...]
>   Why do I need the "only"?
[...]
>2)  "diklo" already has inherent in it the concept of "localized
> to", and therefore are  not outside those countries.

Ah, you are right. I was thinking "x1 is local to x2", but the second
definition of "diklo" is "x1 is confined to x2". "confined to x2"
basically means "local only to x2", so the "only" is already included
in "diklo".

> OTOH, if the sense of
> the original is that you could pick up 70% of the world's plants by visiting
> those eleven countries, but not precluding the possibility that you could
> find those same plants elsewhere, then I have NOT captured the right sense.

Right, I find the original ambiguous in that way too.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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