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

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

On Friday 21 October 2011 10:56:02 Martin Bays wrote:
> {pa pi no lo plise} would have to mean "all the apples" (together).
>
> So integers and reals act differently as quantifiers, even when they're
> equal as numbers. It's only quite ugly.

I say that "pa lo plise", "papino lo plise", and "piro lo plise" all mean the 
same, "one apple", but with different emphasis (the last is better translated 
as "an entire apple"). I was answering what would happen if And's 
interpretation were correct.

Pierre

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