Subject: Re: [lojban] More about quantifiers

From: "Jorge Llambias" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 20:57:01

la and cusku di'e

>Further, if Jorge and pc want to propose comprehensive
>systems for importing and nonimporting quantifiers, they
>should be done solely on the basis of "da poi ke'a", since
>only such a system will generalize to all cases. In this
>respect, Jorge's and pc's proposals are equally defective.

You're quite right. Here's a proposal that complements
mine so as to take care of the remaining cases:

Let's define: {roma'u}, {noma'u}, {su'oma'u} and {me'iroma'u}
as always having existential import, and {roni'u}, {noni'u},
{su'oni'u} and {me'ironi'u} as the non-import forms.

In my system:

ro = roni'u
no = noni'u
su'o = su'oma'u
me'iro = me'iroma'u

Other systems will have other defaults (but these are
the easiest to use for naku transformations).

In practice I don't expect these to be used, but they
would be there in principle for those who want a complete
system.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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