Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: What the heck is this crap?

From: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 04:42:59 EST

In a message dated 11/5/2002 6:12:23 PM Central Standard Time, 
[email-masked] writes:
<<
> >>ro bangu cu selfi'i zo'e = ro da poi bangu; su'o de zo'u: da
> >>selfinti de(This is read as there being a possibly distinct de for
> >>each da)
> >>
> >>zo'e finti ro bangu = su'o de; ro da poi bangu zo'u: de finti da
> >>(This is read as there being at least one de inventing all da)
> 
> I still say that I don't know why "possibly distinct de for each da" !=
> "at least one de inventing all da".
>>
Well, the English is a bit murky, but the Lojban (after the equation of 
{zo'e} with {su'o da}, which does not look right at all) is clear. The first 
is true if each language has an inventor, even if it is a different one each 
time. The second is true if there is one person (or group of people, 
perhaps) who invented (together, if a group) every single language.