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

[And Rosta <and.rosta@gmail.com>]

la gleki, On 27/08/2012 05:34:
> On Saturday, August 25, 2012 10:58:19 PM UTC+4, And Rosta wrote:
>
>     la gleki, On 25/08/2012 15:23:
>      > OK. Please translate
>      >
>      > "I could eat some specific apple from that basket, namely the yellow (all the others are red)"
>
>     "mi su'o mu'ei citka le plise je se lanka be ta"
>
>      > "I could eat any apple from that basket".
>
>     "ro da poi ge plise gi se lanka ta zo'u mi su'o mu'ei citka da"
>  >
> 1. So "Give me any three apples from the basket!" would be {ro da poi
> plise zo'u ko su'omu'ei dunda ci da}?

I think that means "For every bunch of apples, make it the case that you could give me three out of the bunch.

For "Give me any three apples", I'd suggest "e'o do dunda mi lo plise cimei", or "e'o do mi dunda ci da poi plise". Maybe "ko dunda" would do, but afaik scope of ko isn't defined.

There's no single Lojban word corresponding to English _any_. But there are Lojban sentences expressing the meaning of English sentences that contain _any_.

> So in every possible world I'm asking for three {da}?

No.

> 2. Is it possible to get rid of {zo'u}?

In your Lojban? I can't a way, but maybe I'm being slow.

--And.

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