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[lojban] Re: Second-order quantification has uses



Jacob Thomas Errington <jake@mail.jerrington.me> writes:

> Lojban is funny in that you can smuggle selbri around as sumti (as witnessed by the very common {lo ka}) and 'unbox' them with {ckaji} -- 
> this unboxing is very flavourless, but there are delicious unboxings
> like {carmi}, {pluka}, etc. -- and more generally you can unbox any
> reified selbri with the experimental cmavo {me'au}:
>
>   .i x1 x2 x3 ... broda === x1 x2 x3 ... me'au lo ka ce'u ce'u ce'u
> ... broda

I use {nu'a ma'o mo'e} for that.  It takes an indirect route - via
Lojban's mex subgrammar - but it gets there.

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