Subject: Re: [lojban] da, scope, usage

From: "Jorge Llambias" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 23:09:18

la rab cusku di'e

>Which brings me back to the original thing I asked: why use {da} when
>you don't plan to use it again, and only want to claim existence? Why
>not {zo'e} or some other KOhA?

You use {da} when you want to use a quantifier. You can't
distiguish between {su'o da}, {so'i da}, {ro da}, etc with
{zo'e}. In fact, the main function of {da} is to give
substance to quantifiers.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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