Re: [lojban] quantifier with "la"

[Jonathan Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 8:51 AM, selpa'i <seladwa@gmx.de> wrote:

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

Yeah, there were four people in "The Three Musketeers", for example.

-- 
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.i.e'ucai ko cmima lo pilno be denpa bu .i doi.luk. mi patfu do zo'o
(Come to the Dot Side! Luke, I am your father. :D )

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