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Re: [lojban] xorlo and default quantifiers



No 'tain't.  At worst it is neutral, but it is easier (at least initially) to take it as collective.


From: Ian Johnson <blindbravado@gmail.com>
To: lojban@googlegroups.com
Sent: Mon, May 2, 2011 12:05:08 AM
Subject: Re: [lojban] xorlo and default quantifiers

Shouldn't you not do that anyway, since {lo} is distributive?

mu'o mi'e .latros.

Here is an example where "su'o" fails:

lo ci nanmu ca'o bevri lo pipno.
"Three men are carrying a piano."

It would not occur to me to conclude that at least one of the three
men is carrying a piano, my assumption would be that they are all
three doing it together.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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