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Any again



I've been thinking about this, and it seems that the use of 'any' in English
has more meanings than I thought.

I don't have any books.  translates as:
Go bu ten hon.  (I not have books) or
Go ten zoi hon.  (I have zero books)

Now,
Go ten bu hon.
Would mean something more like
"I don't have _books_"  or
"It's not books that I have."

Anybody can speak Ceqli
Kuljin fey bol ceqli.  Everybody can speak Ceqli.

Where you get a difference is:

Zi vol kwa?  What do you want?
Go vol kuldiq (or kulda).  I want everything.
That isn't what you mean.  It means that out of everything, you will take
one (or more, sometimes), and it doesn't matter which, but you're not
wanting everything.  French seems to do this with n'importe quoi, Spanish
with analogous cualquier (I think).

How about
Go vol han kulda.   I want one (of, from, out of) everything.

Could 
Go vol da kulda.
mean "I want anything" in the sense of "one or more", since 'da' is
numberless?
And if you want to specify that you want more than one something, you can
say:
Go vol zeda kulda.

Am I on the right track here?   Lojbanist input?

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