Re: [lojban] quantifier with "la"

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

Am 26.08.2012 16:26, schrieb Pierre Abbat:
> "la so pintupi cu bevri lo kanguru": Does this mean that all nine individually
> carried kangaroos?

The inner quantifier is part of the name, so it means "The Nine 
Pintupi", but it doesn't tell us how many there are. They could carry 
them individually, but we don't know.

You can force distributivity with an outer quantifier: "ro la so pintupi".
To make it explicitly collective, you could say "lu'o la so pintupi".
In both cases, we don't know how many pintupi there are.

mu'o mi'e la selpa'i

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