Re: [lojban] Individuals and xorlo

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Dan Rosén <lurifax@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm using the expansions suggested in http://www.lojban.org/tiki/BPFK+Section:+gadri, where

    lo pa xanto = zo'e noi ke'a xanto gi'e zilkancu li pa lo xanto,

but {lo xanto} can be plural, so this removes the effect of the zilkancu part. Is it that I misunderstand this equation, or is it just false?

I don't think it's quite right to say that "lo xanto" can be plural, because Lojban doesn't have grammatical number, so it can't strictly be singular or plural. But a natural translation of "lo xanto" in this context would indeed be plural in English, something like "is 1 counting in elephants".

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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