[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: [lojban] Re: tersmu 0.2




On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 8:58 PM, selpa'i <seladwa@gmx.de> wrote:

Indeed (Toaq Dzu has both as distinct words). I take {ro'oi} as the dual
of {su'oi} (naku su'oi naku). The other one would be "the highest
number". My impression so far has been that "any" is much more common
than "all". "All" is mostly necessary when counting cardinalities (e.g.
"All shipmates together were seven in number"), where "any" would fail.

Or "It took all shipmates to lift the cannon."

This kind of generalization is the one we're thinking of for the cardinal numbers. Basically the plural version of PA would correspond to "su'oi da poi PA mei". That's also probably what we want for the so'V series, rather than the other variety. The exception would be "no" that only has the other generalization, "naku su'oi".

I just think that plural quantifiers would make more sense in a language with plural reference. Right now Lojban has a strange mix of singular and plural predication. We can talk about the students who are surrounding a building, but can't claim that some students are surrounding the building without bringing in proxy sets or masses (or experimental cmavo).

Definitely worth considering.

mu'o mi'e xorxes
 

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "lojban" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to lojban+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
To post to this group, send email to lojban@googlegroups.com.
Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/lojban.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.