Re: LAhE and quantifiers

John Cowan <[email protected]> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 18:21:28 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.science.linguistics.lojban.jboske
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Jorge Llamb��)B�as scripsit:

> > BTW, as a byproduct of "JCB speaks!" I now grasp that jo'u, the mystery
> > JOI, is designed to create Collectives, and is the true equivalent
> > of Loglan ze, which is Loglan's only non-logical connective.
> 
> Then we should scrap jo'u from Lojban, which already has joi corresponding
> to loi and ce corresponding to lo'i, so whichever of those gadri handles
> collectives, we already have a corresponding connective. jo'u is
> redundant to either joi or ce.

Just because there is no distinction at the gadri level (if that is to be
so) does not mean that there need be no distinction at the non-logical
connective level. We have no gadri for "ordered set" either.

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