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

We have a bunch of PA for "any" already; the trick is to use the right one in the right place.  To replace all of those (well, actually, two) with a single word to be used anywhere is to lose logical precision, which is at least one point of Lojban.  To be sure, knowing what to use where requires knowing what you are saying, but that is the point of any language and merely comes to the fore in moving from English to Lojban. We can get away with not being clear what we are saying in English because our native speaker intuitiin guides us through the morass, but, when we go to another language (not just Lojban), we need to think things through to fit in with the new idiom and short rules. like "any" is "some" or "any" is "all" don't always work right, since the context in Lojban may not be that in English.  So far you have about three quarters of the cases for translating "any" and they cover more than three quarters of the cases and point to the handling of the rest.  Do you want the rest of the lecture?


From: la .lindar. <lindarthebard@gmail.com>
To: lojban@googlegroups.com
Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2012 7:34 PM
Subject: Re: [lojban] "Any" and {ro}

I was actually serious, you know.
Why not have a PA for "any"?
http://vlasisku.lojban.org/vlasisku/PA4 
There a bunch of other weird numbers like, "Almost all" and "Too many", so why not, "Any"?
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