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

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 8:43 PM, sunderland <gatewaycat@gmail.com> wrote:
> To answer {do djica lonu citka ma} with "anything," I'd just say {roda},
> which here means "for each x, I('d) want to eat x," not that "I want to eat
> the-mass-of everything" as in English (maybe I misunderstand {roda}?).

It depends where you put it:

ro da zo'u mi djica lo nu mi citka da
"Every x is such that I('d') want to eat x."

vs.

mi djica lo nu ro da zo'u mi citka da
"I('d) want that every x be such that I eat x."

The first one may be a case of indifference, but the second one is
certainly a case of gluttony.

I would interpret "mi djica lo nu mi citka ro da" as the second one
because I take the quantifier as belonging to the most immediate
prenex, and probably a simple "ro da" answer to "ma" as well.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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