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

[Ian Johnson <blindbravado@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 3:52 AM, la .lindar. <lindarthebard@gmail.com> wrote:

This is at least the third time I've been in a thread just like this since I started here, so can we please pin/sticky/do something to prevent this thread from reappearing? It's {lo}. It's already there. It's built into the word. I'm pretty sure I settled on this with Robin, though nobody remembers[1]. Just saying {lo gerku ku} is like "any/some dog(s)"[2]. In fact, you can't not say "any" or "some"[3]. That's just how the word works.

<sarcasm>

Sources:

1. This is me being petty. =D

2. Somewhere in the CLL. Probably the part where it explains that.

3. Try to prove otherwise. =P

</sarcasm>

You can't quote the CLL about lo--xorlo aside, the CLL's lo is defined in terms of da, which means that {lo gerku cu se tuple vo da} means "there exists a dog has 4 legs", not "any dog has 4 legs" under CLL-lo. Under xorlo as I understand it right now it's more like you can't not say "the generic".

mi'e la latro'a mu'o

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