Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: Three more issues

From: "Jorge Llambias" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 17:35:48

la aulun cusku di'e

>If that is true then the following seems to be tautological/nonsensical:
>{lo} -> {su'o lo ro} -> at least one of *each* (one) or {re} -> {re lo 
>ro} -> two of *each* (one)

You're right, translating inner {ro} as "each" does not
work well, but the "inner quantifier" is not a quantifier,
it is the cardinality of the set. {ro} doesn't add anything
really, the inner quantifier is always the total number,
you use {ro} when you don't want to be more specific.

Another use of {ro} that does not translate well as "each"
is for ordinals: romoi, rore'u, romai where it means "last".

In any case, {ro broda}, {ro lo broda} or {ro da poi broda}
always means "each broda".

co'o mi'e xorxes

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