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Re: [lojban] Update on gadri Proposal



2011/12/10 Felipe Gonçalves Assis <felipeg.assis@gmail.com>:
> Now that the formal definition of {PA broda} has been updated in the
> gadri Proposal, there are other parts of it that need to be adjusted.
> The first paragraph, defining {lo}, still says
> "
> When an outer quantifier is used without an inner quantifier, lo can be omitted.
> "
>
> I think this should be replaced by an exemplified explanation of the differences
> between {PA broda} and {PA lo broda}.

What are those differences?

> Maybe some of the examples should be reviewed as well.
> I find the parenthesised {lo} in the following particularly misleading.
> "
> o'i mu (lo) xagji sofybakni cu zvati le purdi
> Caution! There are five hungry Soviet cows in the garden.
> "

What difference in meaning does "lo" make here?

(If we remove (lo) from the example, we should remove the example
entirely, since it's supposed to be an example of "lo".)

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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