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Re: [lojban] {zo'e} as close-scope existentially quantified plural variable



* Thursday, 2011-10-20 at 23:25 -0400 - Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>:

> On Thursday 20 October 2011 22:06:58 And Rosta wrote:
> > When I was last up-to-date with developments, nothing was official, but I
> > think I can recall the rudiments of our best efforts at that time to
> > construct a consistent and rational gadri system. As far as I now recall,
> > "half an apple" would be "lo pi mu plise", while "pi mu lo plise" would be
> > the "one in every two apples" one.
> 
> If "pimu lo plise" means "one in every two apples", then "pa lo plise" should 
> mean "every apple". I think "lo pimu plise" is "a half apple"

But {lo PA broda cu broda} is meant to be a tautology. Half-apples
aren't apples.

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