Also sorry for copy-pasting the following but i really have nothing to add to it:
On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 07:19:41PM -0300, Jorge Llamb�as wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 7:05 PM, Robin Lee Powell
> <rlpo...@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> > I have, For Some Time Now (tm) wanted a "more than the current
> > value" and "less than the current value" PA (or, more usefully,
> > a "current value" PA). �This is just another reason.
> Suppose "va'ai" is the current value. How would that work?
> If I say "xu do djica pi va'ai ladru", does that mean "would you
> like the current amount of milk?" Would that be the amount she
> already had, and I'm asking whether she would like a second amount
> like it? Or is it asking whether she is satisfied with what she
> Would "za'u va'ai" mean an amount larger than the current one,
> such that she would end up having the current amount plus this
> second, larger amount on top of it, or would "za'u va'ai" be just
> any additional amount on top of the current one (but how would
> that fit with the normal meaning of "za'u"?)
Hmmm... Damn you and your logic. :P
You're right, you can't really do that with quantifiers, because
you're quantifying the amount of stuff, not whether that amount of