Subject: Re: [lojban] Bald men

From: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 08:34:57 EST

In a message dated 10/28/2001 8:49:34 PM Central Standard Time, 
[email-masked] writes:

> "All men don't have hair" can be represented in Lojban as
> 
> ro nanmu na se kerfa
> 
> which prenexes as
> 
> naku ro da poi nanmu zo'u kerfa da
> It is false that for each X that is a man, (something) is X's hair
> 
> which is true: some men are bald.
> 

Exactly. "All men don't have hair" is ambiguous in English, but the most 
plausible reading is this one. The other reading is better put as "No men 
have hair", {no namu cu se kerfa}