Re: [lojban] "Any" and {ro}

[selpa'i <seladwa@gmx.de>]

Am 15.08.2012 17:05, schrieb Pierre Abbat:
> On Wednesday 15 August 2012 08:35:28 la gleki wrote:
> > I couldn't reply to the post
> > <https://groups.google.com/d/topic/lojban/e1QaF7iQv1o/discussion>(due to
> > server error every time i tried to send my reply) so I'm creating another
> > topic.
> >
> > This is really an interesting question.
> > *Any* ideas of how to express "any" in Lojban?
> > I can clearly feel the difference between "any" and "each/every/all" ({ro})
> > but I can't describe it.
> The French for that is "n'importe quel", and the Spanish is "no importa cual"
> (or is it "importe"? the French is ambiguous), so maybe something
> like "nalvaidza". ("mo" has no rafsi, and I'm not sure what to use as the third rafsi.)

I invented -mo'e- as rafsi for {mo} some time ago.
I agree that in each natlang realization of this idea, there is a hint 
of "it's doesn't matter", so this might a good path to go down.

mu'o mi'e la selpa'i

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